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INSIDE:• Citizens of Ukraine remember country’s famines — page 3. • Fire destroys chapel at patriarchal cathedral complex — page 3. • Theater in a Basket performs in the United States — page 15.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXIII HE No.KRAINIAN 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2005 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine Famine-GenocideT U exhibit in Kyiv W Melnychenko returns to Ukraine, features U.S. investor’s collection by Zenon Zawada Ukrainian society. testifiesby Yana Sedovain secret toMoreover, prosecutor at a December 5 press con- Kyiv Press Bureau Posters became a popular form of Kyiv Press Bureau ference, Mr. Melnychenko didn’t make Holodomor art between 1988 and 1993 any revealing statements and gave KYIV – Among the biggest contributors largely because the industry that churned KYIV – After a five-year exile, obscure answers to all questions. to the Famine-Genocide exhibit unveiled out the massive volumes of Soviet propa- Mykola Melnychenko returned to his Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr by President Viktor Yushchenko in Kyiv ganda went bankrupt after the Soviet native Ukraine, where he caused an inter- Lytvyn became the main target of Mr. two weeks ago was Morgan Williams, a Union’s collapse. With production means national scandal by releasing secret Melnychenko’s accusations. prominent Ukrainophile. still intact and a cultural void to fill, poster recordings of top government officials, “Lytvyn often states that he hadn’t a Mr. Williams spent the last eight years artists began creating art about the which he made as a former security offi- single motive and that Gongadze wasn’t cer of President Leonid Kuchma’s. dangerous to him,” he said. “I stress that During his first week in Ukraine, Mr. Lytvyn had personal motivations to hate Melnychenko became a media sensation, Gongadze.” Mr. Melnychenko said per- drawing a hoard of reporters when his sonal relations with a woman motivated plane touched down at Boryspil Airport Mr.Lytvyn, however he didn’t offer any on December 1. names. In his only other distinguishing act, he At the press conference, Mr. arrived at the Procurator General’s Office Melnychenko also ran into his former to provide secret testimony. colleagues, his fellow colleagues who He returned to Ukraine with fellow used to work with him at the Presidential U.S. asylum winner Oleksander Administration’s Security Service. Yeliashkevych, a former Verkhovna Rada They were there to attack and discredit deputy and victim of former President him, alleging that Mr. Melnychenko had Leonid Kuchma’s regime. Mr. no possibility to install any recording Yeliashkevych was severely beaten in device in Mr. Kuchma’s office. Kyiv in 2002. Moreover, not a single person could On the Melnychenko tapes, a voice have entered the president’s office alone similar to Mr. Kuchma’s proposes giving in accordance with the Security Service’s the maverick politician a beating to strict instructions, said Volodymyr Hryhorii Surkis, an owner of the Dynamo Kosariev, the former deputy commander Kyiv soccer club. at the Presidential Administration. The main purpose of their return is to Therefore, another security official ensure that “Kuchma and his criminal always accompanied Mr. Melnychenko Zenon Zawada group are punished,” Mr. Yeliashkevych always, he said. If he truly made the said. Investor Morgan Williams stands next to one of four paintings by Nina recordings, it was as part of a conspiracy, However, he said he and Mr. Marchenko in his Holodomor artwork collection, which was exhibited in Kyiv's Mr. Kosariev stated. Ukrayinskyi Dim between November 23 and 29. Melnychenko did not bring any addition- “When Melnychenko worked here, al documents that might help in the just imagine how they went in,” Mr. accumulating and organizing what is now Chornobyl disaster and the Holodomor of Heorhii Gongadze investigation and Kosariev said. “One person stood in the the world’s largest known private collec- 1932-1933, Mr. Williams said. added that the Procurator General’s doorway, and Melnychenko went in once tion of Holodomor artwork. His collection Another poster impressing Mr. Office (PGO) already has all the materi- consists of 300 items, including more than Yushchenko featured the slogan, “No One als. (Continued on page 4) 100 posters and 35 paintings. Wanted to Die” against a blue-and-yellow Having spent 25 years in international background, with wheat fields and crosses food system development, Mr. Williams portrayed in the bottom half. said he was deeply affected when he began Mr. Williams’ collection featured a lot of learning the details about the Holodomor. diaspora poster art, including two postcards UNAPARSIPPANY, leader N.J. – Tekla TeklaMoroz, Moroz dies His first trip to Ukraine was in 1992 and printed in 1935 by Ukrainians in Germany. honorary member of the Ukrainian by 1995 all his professional work involved “It was the first visual expression of National Association’s General Assembly Ukraine, including investing and consulting. Ukrainian protesting the famine,” he said of and longtime UNA leader, died on “There were no photos from the the postcards, which he found the postcards December 6. She was 78. Famine, and no one was allowed to write, in a Ukrainian museum in Connecticut. The announcement of her death was publish, or paint anything about this up Other diaspora items included a pro- made by the UNA Executive Committee. until 1988,” Mr. Williams said. “The sup- gram cover from a 1983 commemoration Mrs. Moroz was born on April 22, 1927, pression of facts that took place is amaz- event organized by the Winnipeg branch of in Riaciv, Poland. After emigrating to ing, and everything exposing it was done the Ukrainian Canadian Committee (today Canada, she resided in Lachine, Quebec. outside of Ukraine.” known as the Ukrainian Canadian She was a stalwart UNA activist, Mr. Williams’ exhibit was displayed Congress), as well as a poster announcing serving concurrently as secretary of between November 23 and 28 on the sec- the October 2, 1983 demonstration in UNA Branch 465 and chairperson of the ond floor of the Ukrayinskyi Dim on Washington. With between 15,000 and Montreal District Committee since 1968 European Square in Kyiv. Mr. Yushchenko 20,000 in attendance, the manifestation until her death. opened “The Bells of Remembrance” became one of the largest gatherings of She was a UNA supreme advisor from exhibit on its first day. Ukrainian Americans in history. 1974 to 2002, and then was elected an Among those pieces of artwork from his Among the most recognizable paint- honorary member of the UNA General collection that most impressed the presi- ings in Mr. Williams’ collection were Assembly in recognition of her contribu- dent, Mr. Williams said, was a poster titled, those of Viktor Zaretskyi, the husband of tions to the fraternal organization. “And We Watched and Kept Silent.” It por- murdered Soviet dissident Alla Horska; Mrs. Moroz was predeceased by her trays a black crow with red eyes picking at Kyiv artist Nina Marchenko, who painted husband, Joseph. Surviving are her chil- a red thread in Ukrainian embroidery, sym- dren, Bohdan and Halyna. Tekla Moroz bolizing death picking apart the fabric of (Continued on page 6) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2005 No. 50

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS

Russian intransigence overshadows Ukraine combats bird-flu outbreak Belarus on December 5 banned poultry imports from Ukraine. (RFE/RL KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko on Newsline) annual meeting of the OSCE December 3 declared a state of emergency in five villages on the Crimean Peninsula PM upbeat on gas talks with Russia by Roland Eggleston elsewhere. after the Agricultural Ministry had identified RFE/RL Newsline The OSCE feels it played a role in the H5 subtype of bird-flu virus that report- KYIV – Prime Minister Yurii progress made this year on the withdraw- edly killed more than 2,500 domestic birds Yekhanurov told journalists on November A meeting of the Organization for al of Russian military forces in Georgia. in the area, Ukrainian and international 29 that there will be progress “soon” in Security and Cooperation in Europe One diplomat told journalists, “It’s ever media reported. The government sent Ukrainian-Russian talks on Russian gas (OSCE) ended on December 6 without a so slow, but at least there are hints of Internal Affairs Ministry troops to the area, transit across Ukraine and Russian gas sup- final document, following Russian objec- movement.” which has been subject to quarantine. plies to Ukraine in 2006, Reuters reported. tions to a passage concerning its troops The OSCE also believes it can take Soldiers wearing clothing and masks culled Mr. Yekhanurov’s words followed in Moldova’s breakaway Transdniester some credit for improvement in another domestic birds in the affected villages and Gazprom’s accusations on November 28 region. But delegations appeared satis- slow-moving negotiation – the long-run- trucked them away for disposal in specially that Kyiv is sabotaging the talks by insisting fied that the foreign ministers meeting in ning dispute between Armenia and excavated pits. According to local villagers, on prices far below European market levels. Ljubljana had produced results that will Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh. The a mysterious disease has been killing their “As far as we are concerned, the talks are go into effect – even without the formal OSCE has long been involved in efforts birds for more than a month, the Financial proceeding normally. If someone is getting approval of the conference. to negotiate a settlement. Other players Times reported on December 4. The infec- excited, that’s his problem. Russia is mak- In listing the conference’s achieve- have now been brought into the negotia- tion outbreak occurred near the Syvash Bay, ing proposals, as is Ukraine. The gap in the ments, diplomats gave prominent place tions. a marshy lagoon next to the Azov Sea where positions is closing,” Mr. Yekhanurov said. to an agreement that should help defuse The two-day gathering also appeared to birds stop over each autumn as they migrate Meanwhile, Gazprom deputy head some Russian criticisms about operations offer an interim solution to Russian con- between Russia and Africa. (RFE/RL Aleksandr Medvedev told journalists on of the OSCE’s human rights division. cerns about the OSCE’s Office of Newsline) November 30 that Gazprom has proposed a The two-day conference had opened Democratic Institutions and Human Rights “compromise” price for Russian gas sup- amid Russian concerns about the organi- (ODIHR), which, among other things, runs Over 22,000 head of poultry killed plies to Ukraine in 2006: $160 per 1,000 zation’s election-monitoring activities in election-monitoring operations. cubic meters, up from $50 per 1,000 cubic KYIV – In three districts in Crimea, former Soviet countries. Complaints by Moscow that OSCE meters in 2005, Interfax-Ukraine reported. work has continued to remove and destroy But it was another issue altogether that election monitoring in places like “If we had proposed a European-level price poultry in populated places where cases of took center stage at the Ljubljana confer- Belarus, Ukraine and Georgia were for gas as of January 1, it would have been highly pathogenic bird flu were established. ence, which for the third year in a row biased led Russia to temporarily block significantly higher than $160,” Mr. According to the Emergency Ministry press ended with a statement by the group’s the organization’s budget this year. Medvedev said. (RFE/RL Newsline) chairman rather than a text formally Speaking to reporters on December 5, service, as of 7 a.m. on December 6, a total Ukraine willing to pay more for gas approved by all 55 member-states. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov voiced of 22,118 head of poultry were sacrificed in Diplomats have told RFE/RL that the some of Russia’s concerns: “As far as the several villages in Sovietskyi, Dzhankoiskyi and Nyzhnehorskyi districts. KYIV – Ukraine has offered to pay a draft final document failed to win core area [of OSCE activities] is con- higher price for some of the gas that Russian approval largely due to a para- cerned, an area that provokes the most So far, no bird flu episodes have been regis- tered in Crimea’s other districts and no indi- Russia supplies to the country in 2006, graph referring to the presence of heated discussions, and that is election Interfax reported on December 7, quoting Russian military forces in Moldova’s viduals have been infected. (Ukrinform) monitoring, it is absolutely necessary to Valerii Yazev, chairman of the State breakaway province of Transdniester. introduce clear and transparent principles President fires top veterinarian Duma’s Energy, Transport and Russia has yet to withdraw its troops and methods with respect to the compo- Communications Committee. According from Transdniester, despite having sition of observer missions and the KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko to Mr. Yazev, Ukraine wants Russia to pledged in the summer of 1999 to do so appointment of their leaders.” on December 5 announced the sacking of supply 25 billion cubic meters of gas in gradually by the end of 2002. The OSCE But the next day Mr. Lavrov said Petro Verbytskyi, Ukraine’s chief veteri- 2006, including 17 billion cubic meters hailed that pledge in the declaration Moscow could live with a compromise narian, for the latter’s inability to react in for the current barter price of $50 per adopted at its summit in Istanbul in deal on monitoring. a timely manner to an outbreak of bird 1,000 cubic meters. Mr. Yazev added that November 1999. This month, the ODIHR will conduct flu in Crimea, Ukrainian news media U.S. Undersecretary of State for Ukraine is offering to buy the remaining an intensive review of what it does and reported. Mr. Yushchenko was visiting 8 billion cubic meters at a price that Political Affairs Nicholas Burns consider whether some of its practices one of the several Crimean villages sub- addressed that issue at a news conference would gradually rise over the course of could be improved or changed. At the ject to quarantine last week in connection the year from the $80-$82 currently paid on December 6 in Ljubljana. “We regret end of the year, the ODIHR will present with the flu outbreak. However, villagers the continued lack of movement in 2005 to $90-$96 per 1,000 cubic meters. its recommendations to the OSCE for- have reportedly complained that their Ukraine now pays $80 per 1,000 cubic on the withdrawal of Russian military eign ministers, who will then decide birds had been dying since September meters of gas supplied by Gazprom out- forces from Moldova, and we call upon what changes are needed. with officials taking no action. “Today, side the existing barter scheme, which the Russian Federation to use its vast Diplomats in Ljubljana concede that the issue is absolutely under control,” involves Russian gas transit to Europe. influence in the region to resume and this sets the stage for confrontation next President Yushchenko said in Crimea. The Ukrainian president’s press service complete that important work,” he said. year between pro-ODIHR states and “The birds are being destroyed and by announced on December 6 that Mr. “This would also send an important sig- those who oppose its methods. But it did December 12 all residents, first of all nal to the separatist regime in Tiraspol satisfy Russia for the time being. children, will be vaccinated.” Russia and (Continued on page 4) that a status quo which they may find Most diplomats credit Mr. Rupel for convenient will not last forever.” creating a new atmosphere in the organi- Diplomats said that while Russia had zation over the last year. 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Following are accounts of famines in was always a lack of bread. There were ber their history. authorities] decided it would be better to Ukraine as given by witnesses who attend- four of us; three of us brought 500 grams Mother used to tell us this, but we exterminate them. All knew about this, ed the Holodomor commemoration in Kyiv of bread each – almost two kilograms, never listened. Later, when people start- but were afraid to tell. It was only about on November 26, officially designated as yet it was gone all at once. We were very ed to talk about it, I remembered. The 10 or 15 years ago that people started to the Day of Memory for Victims of Famines hungry. Ukrainian people have this fear of talk about this openly. and Political Repressions. The accounts I told [my children] about this. famine that’s reached a genetic level. Tetiana Prykhodko, born in 1947, are edited excerpts prepared by Zenon However. they were brought up in Soviet People to this day say: “Whatever it is, from Davydky, Zhytomyr Oblast, Zawada of The Ukrainian Weekly’s Kyiv times and they perceived this as propa- let it never be worse, let it never be a recalled what her mother had told her Press Bureau with the assistance of Yana ganda. For the history of our people and famine.” Sedova. our nation, the [young generations] must about the Famine-Genocide of 1932- know all its pages, both heroic and tragic. Hanna Tarasenko, born in 1942, 1933: Leonida Vovnenko, born in 1930, This [experience] formed our independ- from Stovpiahy, Kyiv Oblast, spoke My mother told me she was very small from Mohyliv Podilskyi, Vinnytsia ence, the struggle for our state and our about what she knew of the during the Famine. She spoke of how Oblast, spoke first of the Great Famine nation, because it was an artificial famine Holodomor of 1932-1933: neighbors took everything from them and of 1932-1933 and then the famine of to destroy Ukrainians. I stress the word how people starved. Their neighbors had 1947: “Ukrainians” because in the town where My mother told me that her sister’s many children and they had food, but she I grew up, half or even 70 percent [of the family died – all five members. She died had nothing to eat. Once the neighbor My mother didn’t believe that I population] were Jews and they didn’t 15 years ago. When I started to under- came into their house and there was remembered this conversation. [My par- starve. None of them were begging for stand everything, she told me. My sister, something cooked in the oven. And he ate ents told me]: stay home and don’t open bread, none of them were swollen, and Hanna Bova, also died. My mother was this food and didn’t even give it to his the door. No matter what they say or none among them in 1947 were so green offer, don’t open the door. And I remem- and gray as Ukrainians. I am not afraid to ber how women and men would stand speak about this. This is a cry from the beneath our windows and say, “Girl, heart that my parents gave me. People to this day say: “Whatever it is, open up! We’ve brought you a doll.” Why? Because there was cannibalism Ivan Fedyk, born 1938, from let it never be worse, let it never be a in the Vinnytsia region. I was twice Pochaiv, Ternopil Oblast, remembered pulled out of the hands of those who the famine of 1947 and offered his famine.” hunted children. Why did I stay at home observations on the earlier Holodomor: alone? Because my father worked and my mother stood in a line at night to get We had a family of 12 people. My father was drafted into the army. My given a piece of bread and they cooked a children because he was so hungry. They “maloyem,” a sort of bread, and nobody soup with one potato. She ate this soup didn’t die from starvation, but it was very knew in what shop people would get it. mother was alone with us, 10 children. We had to eat something. We ate pigweed; we and brought a piece of bread home for difficult during those times. My mother spent days waiting on lines to her mother to eat because my grand- My mother and her siblings were get this maloyem to feed us. ate sorrel, nettles. That is how we survived mother’s feet swelled from starvation. orphans. There were three of them; they There were two of us: my brother – 10 children. I don’t remember 1933, but [The Communists] walked on the were in poor health. When they were went to school and I stayed home. My I remember 1947 well. I was 9 years old, plots with iron pikes and drove them into children, they needed proper nutrition. father swelled up [from hunger]. He was so I remember what I ate. a self-taught artist. He worked in a gov- The Communists forbade everything. the ground where the ground was Mother said they were sick for a long ernment institution, however, we had nei- There was no literature, we didn’t know smooth. There were potatoes there and time; maybe that affected them so much ther money nor bread to survive. our history, the real one that is. Now dur- they took them out. that they died at a young age – less than One relative died in the morning and ing these last 15 years, we started to learn It was genocide perpetrated against 50 years old. his wife died in the afternoon. Relatives our real history. the Ukrainian people so as to destroy [People should remember] because if would come together to attend a funeral. [As regards the Famine-Genocide], them. First of all, they didn’t want peo- a man doesn’t remember what was, he Mother said whoever she looked at, they there was a harvest in Ukraine that year ple to live in the villages. There was pri- doesn’t have a future. We must learn all were so frightful – blue and green – [1932] and, if you read history, [you vate property there. People had their own from our mistakes. History was my and their faces were covered with moss. know] the harvest was rich. People could land and they used to farm the land. favorite subject, but there was nothing Our father, compared to them, was white have fed themselves with it. But bread In 1932 or 1933, as my mother told about famine. Even if it was mentioned, and chubby. What saved us was that was taken away from all people, even me, people were forced to go to collec- it was one sentence and it was attributed father got a job in the military and could beans – everything that they had. tive farms when they didn’t want to go to a bad harvest. As we later found out, work for food. Once a week, they let him The world doesn’t know that a father there of their own accord. The confronta- there was a harvest. All the history text- go home and what he could save, he killed his son, a daughter killed her tion with people was so fierce that [the books should be rewritten. brought home. mother and [people] ate each other. This When I was 12 years old, I heard my is what people were reduced to. And the parents talk about the Famine. This hap- U.N. doesn’t want to acknowledge this. It Fire destroys wooden chapel pened during the war. People came togeth- was a real genocide. It was done witting- er and dared to talk about the events they ly so as to destroy the Ukrainian people. survived. They said that in Mohyliv mar- Nadia Lebedieva, born in 1938, at patriarchal cathedral complex ket, women sold meat dishes. Our neigh- from Pidhirtsi, Kyiv Oblast, recalled by Olga Bondaruk estimated at more than $20,000 accord- bor said: “I know taste of human meat, what she had heard about the Famine- Special to The Ukrainian Weekly ing to church officials. and it’s very tasty.” [He knew this Genocide of 1932-1933: because] he used to buy meat at the mar- In their first search, police found a KYIV – Arson reduced to ashes a ket from the same woman. And one day I don’t remember the Famine, but I Bible lying beyond the fence and saw wooden chapel at the Patriarchal he showed up and she wasn’t there. He never knew my grandfathers or grand- that valuables had been stolen from the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ asked, “Where is Kateryna?” And he was mothers. We had a neighbor, and she had chapel, Mr. Polishchuk said. under construction on the left bank of the told that police took Kateryna away. He five children and a husband. Only Hrysha They also found heavily burned spots asked, “Why?” [They replied that] some- survived, and Baba Dunia. My father’s Dnipro River, police said on December 6. on the chapel floor as if fuel had been body ate [what she sold] and found half a brothers all died. And this is only in our The fire was set inside the 538-square- spilled there, he said. Police have opened human finger in the meat slop. family. Mother said there was a rich har- foot chapel on November 19 between 5 a criminal investigation and are searching People would speak more about what vest. If somebody says that people didn’t and 6 a.m. A security guard immediately for the arsonists, Mr. Polishchuk said. difficult years they had, but nobody want to sow seeds, that’s a lie. called police and firemen, but the But, since “neither the guard, nor other would speak about this aloud. When the My mother said that grandfather died chapel’s wood burned quickly, and none witnesses can give clear testimonies, the war was over, I worked at school for 40 on Easter Day, 1934. My grandfather of its contents could be saved. Only its investigation process is facing major years, but nobody ever raised this sub- lived until spring. There were green concrete and steel foundation remained. obstacles,” he said. No one has been ject. This topic was forbidden above all, plants already, but it looked like he died “The guard had apparently fallen apprehended thus far. and we were afraid to speak about it from appendicitis. asleep,” said Volodymyr Polischuk, the When worshippers learned of the fire, because we didn’t know whether we [The Soviet authorities] took grain head of the Kyiv Department of they cried, said Brother Andrii, a priest at would lose our jobs. from a pile in a storage chamber. And in Information of Ukraine’s Ministry of the chapel. I also survived another famine in spring they burnt it – they poured Internal Affairs. On August 21, Cardinal Lubomyr 1947. I remember this because I wit- kerosene and lit it on fire. People The cathedral, future headquarters of Husar, leader of the Ukrainian Greek- nessed it; I was 17 years old. You know, climbed that pile and began grasping at the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, Catholic Church, had celebrated a divine people were so emaciated, so hungry and this grain because they were hungry, and was the site of controversy on August 21 liturgy attended by more than 1,000 thin, and their faces had a green-gray they died at this pile. when more than 800 Russian Orthodox faithful to mark the move of the Church’s color. We survived because we went to That’s what my mother, Halyna radicals protested the move of the headquarters to Kyiv. the Dnister River and gathered snails. Ostapenko, told me. Church’s seat from St. George Cathedral This drew massive protests in which Because of these snails, people survived When she told us these things, we did- in Lviv to Kyiv. Orthodox radicals heckled, insulted and until the summer. n’t understand them and couldn’t imag- Prior to the fire, the chapel served as a scuffled with Catholics in a failed At that time, we were given bread ine them. And what did our schools place of worship where priests conducted attempt to intimidate and prevent the rations. As a schoolgirl, I received 500 offer? Devotion to communism, devotion divine liturgies. divine liturgy from starting. Among the grams of bread. Those who worked also to the Komsomol, and the [Communist] The chapel’s altar, carved icons, vest- invectives hurled were “Uniates Back to got 500 grams of bread. Those who did- Party and so on. It was an absolute edu- ments, liturgical books and other reli- n’t work got 300 grams of bread. There cation devised for people not to remem- gious items were burned. Losses were (Continued on page 4) 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2005 No. 50 Leader of Ukrainian community in Kazakhstan visits the U.S. by Serhiy Zhykharev Nursultan Nazarbaev in the life of ethnic Ukrainian National Information Service minorities in Kazakhstan will continue. While visiting the Embassy of WASHINGTON – One of the leaders Ukraine, Mr. Parypsa met with Natalya of the Ukrainian community in Holub, second secretary. Meeting partici- Kazakhstan, Mykhailo Parypsa, visited pants discussed cooperation between the Washington on Wednesday, November 9. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Mr. Parypsa heads the Association of and Ukrainian communities in the Ukrainians in Kazakhstan and the Taras Eastern diaspora. Shevchenko Cultural Society, as well as Mr. Parypsa expressed satisfaction serves as deputy head of the Ukrainian with the recent decision of the govern- World Coordinating Council for the ment of Ukraine to make the Foreign Eastern Diaspora. He is also a member Affairs Ministry responsible for contacts of the Assembly of Peoples of and cooperation with Ukrainians abroad. Kazakhstan, a consultative organ to the president of Kazakhstan. The presence of diplomatic missions of Mr. Parypsa arrived in the U.S. at the Ukraine in the countries of residence of invitation of the Council on Defense and Ukrainian communities will facilitate the Assistance to Ukrainians of the establishment of close cooperation Ukrainian Congress Committee of between the Ukrainian government and America (UCCA). During his visit, Mr. the Ukrainian diaspora. Parypsa visited numerous Ukrainian Mrs. Holub also expressed confidence communities in the United States, where that the new department in the Foreign Mykhailo Parypsa (second from right) of Kazakhstan at the Embassy of Ukraine he informed Ukrainian Americans about Ministry will make such cooperation in Washington with (from left) Volodymyr Samofalov, Michael Sawkiw, Natalya the life of the Ukrainian community in much closer and more effective. She also Holub and Peter Paluch. Kazakhstan and thanked the community stated that the government of Ukraine ation in Ukraine and how the new The Ukrainian community of for its valuable moral and sizeable finan- understands the importance of coopera- Ukrainian government is helping cial assistance in constructing Ukrainian tion with Ukrainians in the Eastern dias- Kazakhstan, he noted, is taking an active churches in Pavlodar and Astana, as well pora, who face financial difficulties and Ukrainians outside of Ukraine. part in preparations for the presidential as opening a Saturday Ukrainian school are currently at the stage of forming a Lastly, in a day filled with construc- election in Kazakhstan scheduled for this and Ukrainian civic center in structure of organizations that would tive meetings, Mr. Parypsa met with December. Mr. Parypsa touched also on Kazakhstan. allow Ukrainians to preserve their her- Susan Quatrone, a legislative assistant to the topic of the political prisoners muse- Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.), whom he During his visit to Washington, Mr. itage and develop strong contacts with um and asked that Rep. Pascrell spear- informed about the life of the Ukrainian Parypsa met with the deputy chief of Ukraine. head the campaign in support of the Mr. Parypsa mentioned several possi- community in Kazakhstan. He also mission of the Kazakh Embassy in the museum’s creation. Ms. Quatrone bilities for Ukraine’s assistance to the underscored the misrepresentation of United States, Talgat Kaliev. During expressed confidence that this issue will community in Kazakhstan. In particular, President Nazarbaev in the Western their conversation, Mr. Parypsa informed find moral support in the Congress and Mr. Kaliev about the life of the Ukrainian he mentioned the creation of a museum media; his image in the media is often promised to pass all details of the discus- community in Kazakhstan and inquired dedicated to former political prisoners in negative, which is not true, Mr. Parypsa about the life of the Kazakh community the USSR. He reported that the extremely said. sion on to Rep. Pascrell. in the United States. valuable KGB archives that contain The meeting participants discussed information on political prisoners who said on November 23. possibilities for cooperation between the served their sentences in Kazakhstan, Fire destroys... “We are deeply grateful to those who Embassy of Kazakhstan in the U.S. and including those from Ukraine, are now (Continued from page 3) understand the need to have a place of the Ukrainian community in Kazakhstan. stored without supervision and irreplace- Lviv,” “Catholics Back to Rome” and prayer and to those who are ready to Mr. Parypsa emphasized that the able documents may soon be lost forever. help,” Cardinal Husar said in a statement. The Voice of America (VOA) also “Fascists” Some of the protesters had Ukrainian community feels very wel- He said he expects reconstruction will come in Kazakhstan and has great plans interviewed Mr. Parypsa in its studios in even arrived from other cities, such as begin in spring 2006. for the future. In turn, Mr. Kaliev Washington. The interview centered on Donetsk. Worshippers had originally built the assured that the active participation of the role of the Ukrainian community in Several hundred police officers stood the Kazakh government and President Kazakhstan and the current political situ- around the construction site to prevent a chapel in 2003 at their own expense. violent conflict, which would have likely Now, priests conduct divine liturgies occurred. at the site from a temporary wagon tion for violation of his universal right to placed on the foundation of the destroyed be elected. However, he said he refused Cardinal Husar, who is major arch- Melnychenko... bishop of the UGCC and metropolitan of chapel. (Continued from page 1) to take the compensation. Kyiv-Halych, has lived in an apartment “It’s very inconvenient for the wor- every three days or even once a week. Despite his rock-star-like arrival, Mr. Melnychenko will hardly play any signif- in Kyiv since the events of August 21. shippers,” said Father Oleksa Petriv, a Tell me, how could he have put a The fire will not delay the construction spokesman for the Ukrainian Catholic recorder under the couch (by himself)?” icant role in the parliamentary election campaign of 2006, said Mykhailo of the patriarchal cathedral, which the Church in Kyiv. However, Mr. Melnychenko refuted Pohrebynskyi, chair of the Center for Church hopes to complete by 2008, Despite the inconvenience, believers the statement and said he “personally put Political Research and Conflict Studies, Brother Andrii said. Meanwhile, plans continue to attend the liturgies in the a recorder under a couch (in Mr. which is funded by Russian banks and are also under way to restore the burned wagon with the hope they will soon Kuchma’s office) and took it from that private Ukrainian organizations. “He chapel. replace the chapel. place.” considers himself a gambler on the politi- Ukrainian Catholics want a place to “My spirit grieves when people do One conspiracy theory that has resur- cal stage and overestimates himself,” Mr. pray and have already expressed their these kinds of things,” said Tetiana faced has it that the recordings must have Pohrebynskyi said. willingness to work and provide funds to Tkach, 43, a Ukrainian Catholic attend- been ordered by unknown political Discrediting Mr. Lytvyn, who is restore the burned chapel, Cardinal Husar ing divine liturgy on December 3. forces, either in Ukraine or Russia, so as among those suspected of ordering the to discredit Mr. Kuchma. Gongadze murder, could be the real rea- However, Mr. Melnychenko reasserted son behind Mr. Melnychenko’s return to Minister Serhii Holovatyi, acting on that nobody ordered him to tape the con- Ukraine, Mr. Pohrebynskyi said. NEWSBRIEFS behalf of the president, has filed an versations. “Not a single country, special Despite the fact that Mr. Melnychenko (Continued from page 2) appeal against the Shevchenkivskyi service or a physical person asked or denied that he sold his tapes to anybody, Yushchenko plans to hold a telephone District Court’s ruling. The Procurator ordered me to document Kuchma’s Mr. Pohrebynskyi alleged he definitely conversation with Russian President General’s Office (PGO) said on December 5 that the latest ruling in favor crimes,” he said. sold his recordings, without mentioning Vladimir Putin on Russian gas supplies, Mr. Melnychenko also stated he has of Mr. Piskun was illegitimate, adding to whom. but no further official report on the issue no intention of taking in parliamentary that it was made with “gross and mani- Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky, has been released. (RFE/RL Newsline) elections to the Verkhovna Rada next who is exiled in London, claimed earlier fest violations” of Ukraine’s Code of year. He said he has no desire to be in the this year that he had bought some of Mr. Court suspends PGO appointment Administrative Judicial Practice. The Verkhovna Rada and see the face of Mr. Melnychenko’s recordings. “There were PGO also said it will appeal the ruling. Lytvyn or any of the other national many Ukrainian secrets (on the tapes),” KYIV – The Pecherskyi District Court (RFE/RL Newsline) deputies for that matter. in Kyiv on December 5 suspended he said. “If we had a democratic state, Internal passports OK for travel to Russia Mr. Melnychenko failed to win a prison would be the only future for him.” President Viktor Yushchenko’s decree deputy’s mandate during the 2002 elec- Andrii Shkil, a national deputy and appointing Oleksander Medvedko as the KYIV – During 2006 Ukrainian citi- tion campaign because the Central close associate of Yulia Tymoshenko, country’s procurator-general, Ukrainian zens may travel to Russia with their Election Committee denied his registra- escorted Mr. Melnychenko and Mr. news media reported. The ruling fol- internal passports, Borys Bazylevskyi, tion as a candidate from the Socialist Yeliashkevych during their flight from lowed a lawsuit filed by former director of the Consular Service Party of Ukraine. Moscow to Kyiv on December 1. Procurator General Sviatoslav Piskun, Department of the Ukrainian Foreign On October 19, 2004, the European Mr. Shkil explained this as a personal who was fired by Mr. Yushchenko in Ministry, told journalists on November Court of Human Rights ordered the initiative to provide security to Mr. October and won a case for his reinstate- 22. He said an agreement to this effect Ukrainian government to give Mr. Yeliashkevych, who didn’t obtain such ment before the Shevchenkivskyi District was reached at Ukrainian-Russian nego- Melnychenko $5,000 in moral compensa- security from the Ukrainian government. Court in Kyiv in November. Justice tiations in October. (Ukrinform) No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2005 5

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UNA branch secretary elected TO ALL MEMBERS OF UNA BRANCH 369 Please be advised that Branch 369 had merged with Branch 137 to New Britain City Council as of December 1, 2005. All inquires and requests for changes NEW BRITAIN, Conn. – Adam Platosz, secretary of Ukrainian National should be sent to Mrs. Katherine Sargent. Association Branch 254, was elected to the New Britain City Council on Mrs. Katherine Sargent November 8. 2330 Park Ave. He was nominated on September 12 at a special meeting of the New Britain Easton, PA 18045-2811 Town Committee to fill a vacancy in (610) 252-3289 Ward 2 for alderman to represent Districts 2, 3 and 6. Mr. Platosz was very excited to hear that he won election to the City Council. He has been on the Democratic Town TO ALL MEMBERS OF UNA BRANCH 318 Committee since 1986 and has been city alderman from 1989 to 1993. He’s also been a justice of the peace since 1985 Please be advised that Branch 318 had merged with Branch 137 and is the recipient of a Public Safety as of December 1, 2005. All inquires and requests for changes Award. Mr. Platosz’s town, New Britain, is should be sent to Mrs. Katherine Sargent. home to the Taras Shevchenko Highway (Route 9). Mrs. Katherine Sargent Mr. Platosz is known in the Ukrainian community as a member of St. Mary’s 2330 Park Ave. Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Easton, PA 18045-2811 Ukrainian Club, and as a former presi- (610) 252-3289 dent of the local branch of the Ukrainian American Youth Association (SUM). Adam Platosz

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NEWS AND VIEWS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Ukraine’s HIV/AIDS epidemic When it comes to the Famine-Genocide, Ukraine got a much-needed boost in the fight against HIV and AIDS when former U.S. President Bill Clinton, in a visit to Kyiv on November 27, pledged his foundation would help the cause. Ukraineby Lubomyr appears Luciuk to be Sbothoviet-sponsored blind genocide. and deaf Mr. Clinton, who landed in Kyiv on the eve of World AIDS Day, commemo- That is not likely to happen, largely Millions perished. How many? No one rated around the world on December 1, met with Ukrainian President Viktor because of what Ukraine has still not done. knows. There is an ongoing scholarly Yushchenko. He told the Ukrainian president that his aid group, the Clinton While this year’s official memorial service debate over this statistical welter, of as Foundation, would provide training for medical professionals and help was reportedly the most moving and well- much lasting merit as medieval delibera- Ukrainians get access to HIV medications at discounted prices. attended, a proposed Institute of National tions over how many angels might be able Currently, there are 40.3 million people who live with HIV and AIDS through- Memory has not been established. out the world – 38 million adults, 17.5 million women and 2.3 million children to stand on the point of a pin. It will never be settled conclusively because the men Scholarly work on the crimes of commu- under the age of 15, according to the Joint United Nations Program on nism in Ukraine remains uncoordinated, HIV/AIDS, also called UNAIDS. who gathered data for the 1937 Soviet census, then produced detailed reports unsupported. By and large, contemporary While there has been progress in the fight, health care workers have had to Ukrainian society remains uneducated, battle against growing complacency. Doctors in the United States and Canada are demonstrating a significant decrease in the USSR’s population since 1927, were perhaps even unwilling, to become better now able to halt or delay the damage caused by HIV through various tests and informed about what happened. treatments using anti-HIV drugs, but the problem nonetheless persists. In fact, in murdered, their findings suppressed. Stalin’s regime was not about to admit Furthermore, presidential statements countries where most HIV and AIDS patients do not have access to this kind of that famine swept Soviet Ukraine in 1932- about the causes of this catastrophe, medicine, the situation takes on epidemic proportions. 1933, transforming a fertile land once while accurately focusing responsibility In Ukraine, a country with one of the fastest-growing HIV rates in the world, known as “the breadbasket of Europe” on Stalinism, avoid calling for the prose- the epidemic continues to expand. Newly registered HIV infections have been into a Golgotha, a place of skulls. cution of those who served the “Man of increasing annually since the turn of the century – by 7 percent in 2000, 13 per- Moscow’s men, and their minions in Steel.” More than a few of those enablers cent in 2001 and 25 percent in 2002, according to UNAIDS. Every 24 hours, 39 the West, insistently denied there was any are still alive, drawing pensions, living Ukrainians contract HIV, Ukraine’s First Vice Minister of Health Viktor famine. Proffered relief supplies were cheek by jowl with their former victims Veselskyi said, according to the news agency Ukrinform. In Ukraine, there are refused. The few truthful accounts of in Ukraine and Russia, even in Canada. 360,000 adults and children living with HIV. In 2003 alone, 20,000 Ukrainians what was happening, told by courageous Imagine someone saying Hitler was died from AIDS, according to UNAIDS. reporters like Malcolm Muggeridge and responsible for the Holocaust (true) but Approximately 500 of the estimated 45,000 people who need antiretroviral Gareth Jones, were denounced as anti- then stating that is all we need do about treatment in Ukraine receive it – despite the fact that treatment access for all is Soviet propaganda. And, tellingly, the the Nazis (false). Yet, those who orches- guaranteed by Ukrainian law. What’s more, tuberculosis has become the leading Soviet government continued to export trated what was, arguably, the greatest cause of death among people living with HIV. The deadly combination of HIV grain even as people starved. act of genocide to befoul 20th century and tuberculosis is a serious concern in Ukraine, where 10 to 15 percent of tuber- The scale of this atrocity is perhaps best European history are not being identi- culosis cases are estimated to be multi-drug resistant, according to UNAIDS. conveyed by quoting the dean of the fied, much less brought to justice. Yet another factor affecting the spread of HIV and AIDS is that few people famine-deniers, The New York Times corre- Before age inevitably takes away the know they are infected and thus are unaware that they may be passing the dis- spondent Walter Duranty. Speaking private- last of these murderers, and those who sur- ease on to other people. “Over 90 percent of all those who are HIV-positive in ly to British Embassy officials in Moscow, vived them and can still bear witness, the world do not know their status,” Richard Holbrooke wrote in The September 26, 1933, Duranty confided that Ukraine must establish a Commission of Washington Post on November 29. “Yet there has never been a serious and sus- as many as 10 million people had died Inquiry into Soviet Crimes Against tained campaign to get people to be tested.” directly or indirectly of famine conditions in Humanity and War Crimes, as the In Ukraine, Mr. Yushchenko’s administration has taken a number of steps the USSR during the past year. Ukrainian diaspora has repeatedly called recently to make the average Ukrainian aware of the problem and to fight the But was this famine an intentional act, for. Until that is done, the rest of the world epidemic. directed against Ukrainians? A recently will never understand what the Holodomor The president signed a decree that would improve state management of the discovered telegram, marked “Secret” and was, or why it happened, much less accept country’s fight against HIV, AIDS and tuberculosis. The decree created the dated January 23, 1933, originally sent that it was an act of genocide. No number National Coordinating Council for Prevention of HIV/AIDS to deal with HIV, from Moscow to Kharkiv, then capital of of candle-lighting ceremonies, requiem AIDS and tuberculosis cases. It provides those people affected with free medical Soviet Ukraine, and copied to the admin- masses, or symbolic resolutions in this or aid and establishes, by July 1, 2006, an all-Ukrainian clinic for treating juvenile istrative centers of Russian-populated ter- that Parliament will ever suffice. HIV/AIDS cases. ritories bordering Ukraine, is revealing. Traditionally, justice is depicted as a Moreover, the National Coordinating Council has been actively working with Signed by Stalin on behalf of the woman who carries a scale, to weigh the a European Union project to educate Ukrainians about HIV and AIDS. The proj- Communist Party, and by Molotov, as evidence, and a sword, to punish the ect is planning a number of seminars in which some 1,500 interagency partners chairman of the USSR’s Council of guilty. She is blind but she is not deaf. will participate, and it will create education centers in pilot regions of Ukraine Commissars, it refers to a “massive depar- Today’s Ukraine is both. and educate secondary school children about the dangers of HIV and AIDS. ture of peasants” from Ukraine into adja- The steps taken recently by the Ukrainian government should go a long way cent Russian lands “in search of bread.” It toward educating Ukrainians about HIV and AIDS. While there is much more next orders party officials and the OGPU work to be done in Ukraine on this topic, the first steps are often the most impor- (the political police) to prevent this exo- Famine-Genocide... tant and we are encouraged to see President Yushchenko’s resolve in the fight dus. As for those who somehow managed (Continued from page 1) against the growing HIV and AIDS epidemic in Ukraine. to exit Ukraine and Ukrainian-populated four large oil canvas paintings depicting areas in the North Caucasus, they were to rural scenes of starvation; and the late be arrested, and, after “anti-Soviet ele- Holodomor survivor Volodymyr Kutkin, Dec. ments” were weeded out, the rest were to who painted a somber scene of a crow sit- Turning the pages back... be returned whence they came. And so ting on a man who had died trying to starving people were deliberately sent escape from his village to the city. where food could not be found. Aside from Holodomor art, Mr. 12 Olena Tuz, then a 6-year-old living in the Williams also displayed 300 works of folk Zhytomyr region, recalled with horror: art to demonstrate what life was like in Just one year ago at this time, Yaro Bihun filed a story 2004 “People ate people, mothers ate their own Ukrainian villages before the ruinous geno- from Washington headlined “U.S. secretary of state defends children. They didn’t realize what they were cide perpetrated by Soviet authorities. democracy in Ukraine.” He reported that “With Russian lead- doing, they just were hungry.” Last week- ers repeatedly criticizing the United States and Europe for Mr. Williams used many of his own end she attended a Kyiv rally hallowing the funds to compile his collection, a figure he ‘interfering’ in the electoral process in Ukraine in order to expand their sphere of memory of the many millions of victims of influence deeper into former Soviet territory, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell declined to name. But he also received what Ukrainians call the Holodomor, the help and financial contributions from the was called on to remind them about the true meaning of the Orange Revolution that Famine-Genocide. Relatives and survivors has been driving political events there for the past few weeks.” Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. lit 33,000 candles, symbolically represent- the Ukrainian Federation of America and While attending a ministerial meeting of the Organization for Security and ing the number who died every day in the Cooperation in Europe in Sofia, Bulgaria, Mr. Powell said: “The people of Ukraine are the Bahriany Foundation. spring of 1933, at the height of the famine. Mr. Williams was born November 26, playing democracy in the name of freedom.” He added, “What I have been seeing on my They heard President Viktor Yushchenko 1939, in Kansas, a state that bears “a lot of television screen for the last several weeks are people going out into the streets in Kyiv call upon the world to recognize that the similarities to Ukraine,” he said. Between and other cities in the Ukraine saying, ‘We want to have a free, fair, open election.’ ” Great Famine, which killed one-quarter of 1997 and 1999, he ran an agricultural “Spheres of influence,” Secretary Powell said, “is a term that really isn’t relevant to the population of Soviet Ukraine, was a the circumstances that we are facing today,” be it in Ukraine, the Central Asian Republics development finance company. It folded and the Caucasus. The United States is not asking Ukrainians “to choose between the when French banking firm Société East and the West,” he said. “It is a different world we are living in, where people want Lubomyr Luciuk, Ph.D., teaches Generale decided Ukraine was too risky an freedom, they want democracy, they want to be able to select their own leaders, they political geography at the Royal Military investment. want to able to select their own partners and friends. ... Today I join my colleagues in College of Canada in Kingston, and Since then, he has offered business and voicing support for Ukraine’s independence, its territorial integrity and its sovereignty.” wrote a foreword to a documentary col- investment consulting services. He is cur- lection, “The Famine-Genocide of 1932- rently director of government affairs for Source: “U.S. secretary of state defends democracy in Ukraine,” by Yaro Bihun, The 1933 in Ukraine” (Kashtan Press, 2005, SigmaBleyzer, a private equity investment Ukrainian Weekly, December 12, 2004, Vol. LXXII ,No. 50. compiled by Yuri Shapoval). management company. No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2005 7 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Faces and Places Can neither energy nor strength invoke; For all whom bitter misery turns gray by Myron B. Kuropas Dmytro Pavlychko And breaks at last beneath the heavy yoke; was no hero Who drink the cup of sorrow day by day, Dear Editor: Compelled to bless the life on which they choke; “Renowned writer Dmytro Pavlychko Those singers who, for rationed bread and tea, visits the UNA and its newspapers” is the Must sing of hell as heaven’s facsimile. The Ignatieff imbroglio headline in The Weekly (November 13) Canada’s Liberal Party has run into a to convince them [the Ukrainians] that Leo Iwaskiw along with photos and a report about the bit of a swamp, eh? there always was a Ukrainian nation; that “renowned writer.” Philadelphia First there was the corruption scandal it has been suppressed for centuries, that Unfortunately, this inspirational writer around Prime Minister Paul Martin’s it has at last found its freedom and so on. was among those who wasted their tal- minority government in which certain The reality is different.” ents back in the 1960s and 1970s special- members of the government were Ukraine, for Dr. Ignatieff, remains a izing in smearing the Ukrainian diaspora Pejorative meaning accused of raking in kick-backs and giv- mystery. “I have reasons to take Ukraine in the West, labeling them as “bourgeois ing some $85 million in government seriously indeed,” he wrote. “But to be nationalists,” “traitors to the fatherland,” advertising and other contracts to honest, I’m having trouble. Ukrainian inde- “bloody Banderites,” “Nazi collabora- ofDear “nationalists” Editor: Liberal-friendly firms for little or no pendence conjures up images of embroi- tors,” etc. Doesn’t anybody at the UNA Many political terms are perceived work. dered peasant shirts, the nasal whine of eth- recall this besmirching of us as well as differently in different political, histori- Then, on November 28, a parliamen- nic instruments, phony Cossacks in cloaks their servile attitude toward the cal and cultural settings. tary no-confidence vote forced Mr. and boots, nasty anti-Semites.” Communist authorities? Accordingly, since The Ukrainian Martin, to call for new national elections. Mr. Ignatieff’s antipathy toward It is true that times have changed. The Weekly is widely read in North America, And now, only days after the surprise Ukrainians appears to be lifelong. “From purpose of this letter is not to judge those it seems it would be more appropriate retirement of Liberal MP Jean Augustine, my childhood in Canada,” he wrote, “I who in effect were collaborators (willing or and accurate in stories like Zenon we have the sudden candidacy of politi- remember expatriate Ukrainian national- unwilling) of the Soviet regime. Perhaps Zawada’s “UPA veterans, leftists clash cal neophyte Michael Ignatieff as the ists demonstrating in the snow outside they all underwent true conversions ...... ” (October 23) to use the designations Liberal candidate for Parliament in the ballet performances by the Bolshoi in But we should be able to draw a clear “UPA veterans,” “freedom fighters” or Etobicoke-Lakeshore (Ontario). Toronto. ‘Free the captive nations!’ they line of separation between the types of “insurgents” rather than “nationalists.” Ukrainian Canadian voters are outraged chanted. In 1960, they seemed strange and Pavlychko, Oliynyk, Medvedchuk and oth- The latter has largely a pejorative conno- both by the backroom manner by which pathetic, chanting in the snow, haranguing ers of their ilk who served (some were tation in the West and is often employed his unopposed candidacy came to be, and people who just wanted to see ballet and forced into this role) the Russian slave-mas- in scapegoating Ukrainians. In fact, Dr. Ignatieff himself. to hell with politics, They seemed fanati- ters and true heroes of the types of “nationalists” is too simplistic to charac- Two qualified Ukrainian Canadians cal, too, unreasonable. Hadn’t they looked Chornovil, Soroka, Karavanskyj, Moroz, terize those who served in the UPA. were apparently blocked from submitting at a map? How did they ever think Lukianenko, Stus, Krasivskyj, Shukhevych, their nomination documents for the same Ukraine could ever be free.” OUN-UPA fighters and many other politi- R.B. Worobec seat. According to a press release issued Dr. Ignatieff is definitely an intellectual, cal prisoners (whom we in the West vigor- Mount Vernon, Va. by the Etobicoke-Lakeshore Riding a left-wing intellectual, but an intellectual ously defended) who underwent persecu- Association, Marc Shwec and Ron nonetheless. He is often described as “a tion, jail terms and even gave up ther lives Chyczij prepared and submitted the noted Canadian scholar and novelist.” In for the freedom of Ukraine. required candidate forms – including 2003 Maclean’s magazine named Dr. The poet Yuriy Klen (Oswald police and credit checks, as well as Ignatieff “Canada’s Sexiest Cerebral Man.” Burghardt) perhaps summarizes best this Bahriany article required signatures of support – only to The grandson of Count Paul Ignatieff, the contrast in characters in an excerpt from last minister of education to Tsar Nicholas his 1943 collection “The Accursed discover that the office of Liberal Party wasDear Editor: inaccurate Headquarters in Toronto was locked II, he holds a Ph.D. in history from Years” (translated by Andrusyshen and Harvard and has taught at the University of Kirkconnell): Regarding the October 30 article before the 5 p.m. filing deadline. Liberal “Personages in Literature: Ivan Bahriany, Party staffers could be seen through the British Columbia. He held a senior Let us then pray for those who have been taken, “Tribune of the Republic” I would like to second-story windows but refused to research Fellowship at King’s College, Who sail in peril on stormy main; refer the authors, Eugene Melnitchenko respond to repeated door knocks. “I ham- Cambridge, for six years, and is married to Likewise for those, the suffering and the shaken, and Helena Lysyj Melnitchenko, to the mered the door so loud I thought I was the vivacious Hungarian-born Zsuzsanna Who in the darkness seek a path in vain; entry on Bahriany in five volumes of going to break either my wrist the door,” Zshohar. Just in time for his parliamentary Those buried in the snow, who will not waken, the Encyclopedia of Ukraine published Mr. Chyczij said. run, it was announced in August that Dr. Who n’er will find their homeward path again. by the University of Toronto Press to Ron Chyczij holds an M.B.A. and is Ignatieff was to be the Chancellor Jackman On them, O Lord, from Heaven where You check in their inaccuracies. the president of the Etobicoke-Lakeshore Visiting Professor in Human Rights Policy stand, One I can readily correct myself. My Riding Association. Marc Shwec, fluent at the University of Toronto. Small wonder Extend in mercy your sustaining hand! mother, Halyna Pisetska, corresponded in both English and French, is an engi- that many in the Liberal Party are salivat- And let us pray for all whose lives are naught, with Borys Antonenko Davydovych in neer with an M.B.A. and has been active ing about his candidacy and touting him as Who cannot see again the light of day; the 1970s in Kyiv, where she also met in community affairs. prime minister material. Those whom I cannot compass with my thought, him on a subsequent visit there. The second reason for outrage among Thrilled with his uncontested Liberal And those whose very homes were swept away; Therefore, on that score at least he could Ukrainian Canadians is Mr. Ignatieff Party nomination, Dr. Ignatieff responded Whom ruthless hands have into dungeons brought not have died in Siberia as stated in the himself. In a “Faces and Places” column to Ukrainian protests with a press state- So that their joys are withered in dismay. above mentioned article. on January 29, 1995, I wrote that on ment. “I have a deep, personal affinity Ah, with a touch of hands as light as snow, March 27, 1994, Mr. Ignatieff, a with the suffering of the Ukrainian people Relieve them, Lord, of suffering and woe! Oksana Pisetska Struk Canadian born of Russian parents, hosted at the hands of Soviet Russia and a deep And let us pray for those who for the fray Toronto a PBS program titled “Blood and respect for the Ukrainian Canadian com- Belonging.” To me, the entire program, munity,” it read. No mention, of course, devoted to Dr. Ignatieff ’s visit to of tsarist oppression of Ukraine (probably Ukraine, was anti-Ukrainian. too close to his own “blood and belong- Dr. Ignatieff interviewed Vladimir, a ing” ties to tsarism) or to those geogra- ACTION ITEM Russian coal miner, who complained that phy-challenged pathetic “weirdos” who Ukrainian nationalism is making life dif- marched in the snow chanting something Repeal Jackson-Vanik Amendment for Ukraine ficult because his children “have to learn about Captive Nations. The recent Orange Revolution in Ukraine has transformed the political landscape in Ukrainian in schools.” Dr. Ignatieff then Claiming that his words have been that country. Calls for a re-examination of U.S.-Ukrainian bilateral relations is neces- took his viewers to the Crimea, where he taken out of context and distorted, Dr. sary, and warranted. One of the more immediate issues is the revocation of the heard more moaning and groaning about Ignatieff labeled Ukrainian Canadian Jackson-Vanik amendment to the 1974 Trade Act, which limits trade with countries the “tyranny” of Ukrainian nationalism complaints as a “transparent attempt to that do not allow free emigration of its citizens. Ukraine “inherited” the amendment upon the recently returned Tatar popula- twist my writings with the objective of sowing strife in Liberal ranks on the eve when it re-established its independence in 1991. tion. In Lviv, where Ukrainian national- of a campaign.” He offered to meet with In early April of this year in an address to a joint session of the United States Congress, ism is the strongest, Mr. Ignatieff empha- Ukrainian Canadian leaders “to share President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine reiterated the need to repeal the Jackson-Vanik sized that while Ukrainians and Russians views on the Ukrainian experience and amendment and bring that chapter of Ukraine’s history to a close. Recent passage of a bill in eastern Ukraine fought side by side to rid their homeland of the Nazis, western discuss my writing with them.” Right. in the U.S. Senate (S. 632) has prompted efforts in the House of Representatives by Rep. As an American only vaguely familiar Jim Gerlach (R-Pa.) to graduate Ukraine from the Jackson-Vanik Amendment. Ukrainians welcomed the Nazis and “some even collaborated with them.” with Canadian politics, it seems to me The Ukrainian National Information Service (UNIS) requests all Ukrainian that Ukrainian Canadians loyal to the Americans and friends of Ukraine to contact their U.S. representatives and urge them Mr. Ignatieff’s PBS appearance came on the heels of his book “Blood and ideals of the Liberal Party have been to support Rep. Gerlach’s bill, H.R. 1053. snookered. As Hollywood movie Indians Below is a sample letter to send to your U.S. representative. Sample letters may be Belonging” in which he wrote: “Isn’t nationalism just an exercise in kitsch, in used to say, “pale face speak with forked e-mailed directly to your representative at http://www.house.gov/writerep/. Should tongue.” you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Ukrainian National Information fervent emotional insecurity? Especially Service by phone at (202) 547-0018 or via e-mail at [email protected]: so in Ukraine. It has been part of Russia for centuries ... Into this inauthentic void Myron Kuropas’s e-mail address is (Continued on page 23) steams nationalist emotionalism striving [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2005 No. 50 An update on losses from Lviv Archives by Oksana Zakydalsky coordinator of the International Fund Thefts at the Lviv Archives: Ukraina 3000, Oleksii Kopytka, analyze TORONTO – On October 18 a round- the archival and museum situation in table discussion was held at the National Ukraine. researchers comment Academy of Sciences of Ukraine However, the chairman of the State by Oksana Zakydalsky written by Atanas Figol to Volodymyr (NASU) in Kyiv titled “Problems of the Kubijovyc dealing with Ukrainian Committee on Archives, Hennadii TORONTO – Since the summer of Protection of Museums and the Archival Central Committee matters. A copy of Boriak, did not respond to an invitation 2004, when news of massive thefts Heritage in Contemporary Ukraine in the it has become a part of the UCRDC’s to take part. from the Lviv Archives hit the press, Context of the Losses from the Lviv file on Atanas Figol. This year, I was Reporting on the event in its the issue has energized an ever-grow- Archives.” The purpose of the roundtable looking forward to doing more November 5 issue, Ukraina Moloda ing circle of concerned scholars, was to start a dialogue and unite the research at the Lviv Archives. What a emphasized that the concern expressed researchers, archivists, intellectuals efforts of various government organs, disappointment when I found them was not only about the recent losses and politicians in Ukraine. (See The organizations, establishments and con- closed. incurred at the state archives in Lviv, but Weekly, November 6, 2005.) But the cerned individuals for the protection of I was not the only one who was baf- – because of the way in which the affair investigation, which began late and has Ukraine’s heritage and its documentary fled. A group of researchers from the has been dealt with – also about the been going on for a year, still has not and museum treasures. genealogical society of Alberta were future security and protection of identified either the perpetrators or the The roundtable took place under the frustrated when they faced the closed archives. instigators of the crimes. auspices of the following: State Service doors of the archives, with no explana- In addition, on October 17, Director The chairman of the State for the Transfer of Cultural Treasures tion of why or indication of when they Pelz fired one of the first persons to Committee on Archives, Hennadii across the State Borders of Ukraine, would be reopened. demand an investigation into the thefts, Boriak, and Lviv Archives Director Hrushevsky Institute of Ukrainian But, in my opinion, it is the Halyna Svarnyk. Then, on December 1, Diana Pelz have been accused of Archeography and the Study of Sources, Ukrainian researchers who are the the newspaper Postup reported that stonewalling and of harassing the two NASU; Shevchenko Institute of biggest victims. A friend of mine at another whistle-blower at the archives, workers of the Lviv Archives – Ivan Literature, NASU; and the International Lviv University is researching the Ivan Svarnyk, had been fired by Ms. and Halyna Svarnyk – who were the Fund Ukraina 3000. Prosvita movement in Halychyna for Pelz. (The Svarnyks are siblings.) first to bring the thefts to wide public her candidate’s degree. Her work is The event was chaired by Yaroslav The Kyiv meeting put forth an appeal attention. Scholars and researchers greatly dependent on the documenta- Yatskiv, academician and head of the for a debate in the Verkhovna Rada on from outside Ukraine, who are familiar tion housed at the Lviv Archives. At International Association of Ukrainianists the archival losses and a demand to the with the archives, have also expressed the present time, she is in a bind. If the and attended by almost 300 historians, procurator general to take charge and their concern about the situation. museum workers, journalists and national bring the investigation of the thefts to archives do not reopen in the near deputies. Scholars, representatives of all Kyiv. Victor Ostapchuk, associate profes- future, her only choice will be to aban- state archives of Kyiv, students of the Ukraina Moloda also posed this ques- sor, department of Near and Middle don her work and pursue a different National University of Kyiv-Mohyla tion: “Will society be up to the challenge Eastern civilizations, University of topic. My friend is one of many schol- Academy, artists, librarians and museum of transforming this signal [the thefts] Toronto: ars and researchers caught in an workers heard Vice Minister of Culture about the danger into something positive archival crisis about which the powers Olha Shokalo-Bench and the project for the whole archival branch?” The thefts in the Lviv and, for that that be seem to care little. matter, other archives in Ukraine, are a During my stay in Ukraine, the tragedy with many manifestations. Russian-Ukrainian Conference of Aside from the losses, most of which Archives Directors took place in Lviv are probably irretrievable, for the (September 24). A group of concerned Fire destroys children’s library shorter run (which can mean several citizens demonstrated in front of the years) scholars are barred from using conference building, carrying banners: the Lviv Archives, which are indeed atPOLTAVA, Poltava; Ukraine – Thearson Panas the is children’s suspected library. Book donations are “Archival losses – Boriak’s shame,” one of the greatest archives in the “Stop the persecution of Ukrainian Myrnyi Children’s Library in Poltava fell being sought to help the library replace the world, since they are closed indefinite- victim to an apparent act of arson in the lost volumes. Of particular importance, scholars,” “Away with the archival ly for inventory. This affects not only mafia.” They demanded a statement early morning hours of October 11, when Mr. Chobitko noted, are dictionaries, ency- Ukrainians, such as those pursuing a vandals threw explosive materials into the clopedias and the latest publications. from Mr. Boriak as to what the govern- candidate’s or doctoral degree, who ment was doing to solve the archival building. As a result, nearly 10,000 books In addition, he asked that readers con- cannot do their research if their topic were burned. tact the Poltava Oblast Administration at crisis in Lviv. Mr. Boriak chose to nei- requires access to the Lviv Archives. ther respond nor meet the press. Such a According to the library’s director, [email protected] to express their out- They have either to change their topic Leonid Chobitko, it seems the perpetra- rage at the destruction of the library and lack of regard on the part of officials is or delay their program. very disturbing. tor(s) wanted to destroy the library. its threatened closing. Historians from other countries are in Mr. Chobitko noted that the library was For further information, interested a similar situation. The main and indis- Frank Sysyn, director, Peter Jacyk supposed to move, as the building had readers may contact Mr. Chobitko at pensible source for the dissertation of Center for Ukrainian Historical recently been purchased by three private [email protected] or 3805322- one of my Ph.D. students here at the Research at CIUS, University of business people. New accommodations 74821. University of Toronto, whose topic con- Alberta: According to Wasyl Kornylo of the for the library had been held up for three cerns trade between the Ottoman Empire, years now, as local authorities had stalled Irondequoit-Poltava Sister Cities The archival thefts in Lviv are the Poland and Ukraine in the 16th century, on making a decision. Committee in Irondequoit, N.Y., the cause of great concern to scholars is a large body of unique records relating Now, he said, the local deputies may library was supported by the sister cities throughout the world. In general, the to Armenians, which hopefully are still say that there is no sense in trying to pre- committee for the past several years. record of independent Ukraine in deal- intact in the Lviv Archives. Without serve the library, and he fears that the Vechirnia Poltava, a local newspaper, access to this material, his dissertation ing with its archival treasures has been library may simply be closed down. reported that the library contained many topic will have to be changed. mixed. On the positive side, there has The library director issued an appeal on books donated by Ukrainian Americans, as I suspect the Ukrainian archival been increased access. On the negative, behalf of Poltava residents to fellow well as by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton authorities initially did not know what there has been drastic underfunding. Ukrainians around the world to help save (D-N.Y.) they were up against, namely, well- The Lviv collections at the State organized international thievery groups Historical Archive and the Stefanyk intent on reaping healthy profits from a Library are the most important in relatively easily and risk-free undertak- Ukraine. They also have an internation- ing. Incidentally, there is a similar but al dimension in that Poland and Polish longer standing situation with Ukrainian institutions have claimed parts of these antiquities – especially those still on collections, especially those of the for- archeological sites. Since independence, mer Ossolineum. Only the dedicated the sites have been systematically plun- work of Lviv archivists and intellectu- dered and, thus far, the Ukrainian als prevented some of these collections authorities have not had sufficient will, from being sent to Poland by the Soviet or perhaps the interest, to act seriously authorities. The moral right of Lviv and in preventing such activities. Ukraine to retain these materials is placed in question if they are not pro- Iroida Wynnyckyj, archivist, tected and preserved properly. Ukrainian Canadian Research and The archival controversy is somewhat Documentation Center, Toronto: reminiscent of the painful break-up of the Orange Revolution coalition. Both sides My trip to Lviv this year was marred in the controversy have been known by the scandalous thefts at the Lviv internationally for their positive and Archives. Since 1992, I have visited effective work in representing Ukraine the Lviv Archives every year and have and its archival and scholarly work. searched for materials related to the Hennadii Boriak has worked effectively 1946-1947 famine, the history of Plast, with numerous international organiza- as well as various personal files. Last A view of the interior of the Panas Myrnyi Children’s Library in Poltava after a year I came upon an interesting letter (Continued on page 16) fire on October 11. No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2005 9 Chicago greets rector of Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv

by Iwanna T. Gorchynsky UCU to celebrate a traditional Ukrainian Christmas. The stay of the students from CHICAGO – On Sunday, November eastern Ukraine was captured in a brief 13, the Ukrainian community of Chicago film, “Christmas Together,” in which the had the privilege of greeting the Rev. audience saw everyday life on the screen Borys Gudziak, Ph.D., rector of the and heard the impressions of the visiting Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) in students, who said they will remember Lviv. The Rev. Gudziak was in the mid- their experience in Lviv for the rest of dle of his latest American tour: on their lives. November 5 he had been honored at a The visiting students recounted how dinner in New York City and on for the first time they felt the joyful November 20 he was to be honored at a atmosphere of Christmas, and experi- luncheon in the Detroit area. enced the customs, rituals and beliefs A festive luncheon was held in the hall associated with it. They sang carols and of Chicago’s Ukrainian Cultural Center, participated in a vertep (Christmas play). which also houses the offices of the In other words, for them this was a new Ukrainian Catholic Education world. Family life in Lviv opened their Foundation (UCEF), which hosted the eyes to the good will and sincerity of the event and whose objective is to raise people of Halychyna, of whom they used money for the work and wide-ranging to have a negative opinion – the result of activity of the UCU. indoctrination throughout their lives. Petro Didula Honored guests included the local The president of the Ukrainian Catholic Ukrainian Catholic bishops, namely, Education Foundation, John Kurey, then Bishop Innocent Lotocky (left) and the Rev. Dr. Borys Gudziak in conversation Bishop Richard Seminack of the St. thanked all for their assistance in organiz- with Natalja Klymovska of the Ukrainian Catholic University and Nick Nicholas Eparchy of Chicago and Bishop ing the rector’s visit. He also said a few Stankovich of the Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation. Emeritus Innocent Lotocky, OSBM; words about the process of raising money Acting Consul General of Ukraine in for the UCU, informing the audience that Chicago Oleh Shevchenko; Prof. Jeffrey approximately three-quarters of the Wills, vice-rector of the UCU; and the money that the UCEF raises comes from honoree himself, the Rev. Dr. Gudziak. non-Ukrainian corporations, businesses, The emcees were Oleh Karawan of Ss. foundations and benefactors. He Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Catholic expressed gratitude to all and encouraged Church and Iwanna Gorchynsky of St. further cooperation and support. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral, The program reached its culmination both in Chicago. with the speech of the dear guest, the In a short greeting, the emcees Rev. Gudziak. He was introduced by stressed the special significance of the Mrs. Gorchynsky, who presented a short UCU – a “sanctuary of scholarship,” as biography, mentioning the rector’s schol- they called it – and emphasized the arly achievements, scholarly religious importance of its calling, which is work education work, merits, awards, etc. for the spiritual revival of Ukraine. They The rector told the audience about the also noted the great achievements already work, aims, objectives and successes of under the UCU’s belt. Bishop Seminack the UCU, as well as its outstanding stu- then led the introductory prayer and dents, two of whom, for example, were blessed those in attendance. asked by President Viktor Yushchenko to The floor was next given to Natalia work in his entourage. Klymovska, head of the UCU’s In addition to his scholarly achieve- Information and External Relations ments, the Rev. Gudziak is mostly known Seen during the luncheon (from right) are: Bishop Richard Seminack, Ukraine’s Department, who, together with Petro for his deep religiosity, humility, optimism, Acting Consul General Oleh Shevchenko and his wife, and Father Ivan Krotec Didula, a leading religious journalist and kindness, patriotism, respect for students, (at the podium). photographer in Ukraine, was involved in and belief in justice and good. This is seen producing a film about the participation of not only from his words, but also from his Iowa State University welcomes UCU students in the Orange Revolution deeds; it is reflected in the work of his stu- and their contribution toward the historic dents, for whom he is a model. The Rev. changes that lead to the birth of a new Gudziak ended his speech with a call to Rotary Club members from Cherkasy nation, conscious of its calling in the never forget two words: “thanks” and process of building the Ukrainian state. “sorry.” The audience thanked the priest Mrs. Klymovska and Mr. Didula shed with a standing ovation. by Mykola Sarazhynskyy organizing this trip. Visitors had a broad spectrum of inter- some light on the film, which reflected At the end of the program, attendees AMES, Iowa – In late October the Des ests, namely dairy industry, college level the moral substance, noble character and were informed about the “most generous Moines Rotary Club hosted 10 members patriotism of the young people on whom administration, journalism, forestry, food gifts” and the following persons took the from their sister club in Cherkasy. They the fate of Ukraine will depend in the science and human nutrition. On a floor to donate: Bishop Lotocky; Julian E. had a long list of places to visit. Atop this near future. The priority today, as the request from the President’s Office, the Kulas, Esq., head of the Heritage list was a trip to the Iowa State film made it clear, is to revive the spiritu- colleges of agriculture, business and Foundation; the Rt. Rev. Ivan A. Krotec, University (ISU) campus in Ames, locat- ality of the nation, for devastations engineering organized meetings with fac- pastor of Ss. Volodymyr and Olha ed about 40 miles north of Des Moines. caused by natural disasters like floods, ulty to match these fields. Faculty Ukrainian Catholic Church in Chicago; and Rotary Club officials contacted the hurricanes, tornadoes, or even the com- Bohdan Watral, president of Selfreliance President’s Office at ISU to assist in (Continued on page 24) plete destruction of cities in war, are easi- Federal Credit Union in Chicago. er to repair than the devastation of the In addition, it was announced that Dr. human spirit and heart, and moral princi- Natalia Hryhorczuk had passed on dona- ples and ethical foundations. The film tions made by family and friends in was interesting, well-arranged and pro- memory of her late husband, Dmytro, fessionally shot. who recently passed away. During the viewing of the film, the Prof. Dmytro Shtohryn, chairman of kitchen staff served a tasty lunch. the Ukrainian Research Program (URP) Afterwards, the guests began to share with at the University of Illinois at Urbana- each other their thoughts and impressions Champaign, greeted the Rev. Gudziak of what they felt watching interesting and invited him to participate in the moments of the Orange Revolution and annual Conference on Ukrainian Subjects the participation of UCU students in it. organized by the URP. A UCU professor, Nick Stankovich, an The meeting closed with a prayer of American who spoke in Ukrainian, thanksgiving led by Bishop Lotocky. which he learned while spending time Further information about the UCU in with UCU students, underscored that he English and Ukrainian is available on the is delighted by the atmosphere of com- university’s website at www.ucu.edu.ua. munications between students and pro- Readers may also contact the Ukrainian fessors of the Ukrainian Catholic Catholic Education Foundation, 2247 W. University. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60622; phone, The Rev. Gudziak gave a short (773) 235-8462; e-mail, [email protected]; account the visit of 2,000 students from website, www.ucef.org. The phone num- distant universities in eastern Ukraine to ber of the UCEF in Canada is (416) 239- Lviv, where they had been invited by the 2495. Visitors from Cherkasy during their visit to Iowa State University in Ames. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2005 No. 50 MUSIC REVIEW: “Fragmenty” CD continues Paris to Kyiv’s musical journey

by Robert B. Klymasz The disc “Fragmenty” continues the remarkable musical journey initiated some years ago by Winnipeg’s Alexis Kochan and continued by the “Paris to Kyiv Ensemble” which she leads as its principal vocalist. As in the past, the goal here is to cap- ture the soul of Ukrainian folk song, interpret its essence and give it new life. These musicians aren’t copy-cats, and listeners unused to experimental or inno- vative music will need to cast aside their preconceptions before listening to this disc. Enthusiasts of current trends in “world music” will have no trouble the ensemble’s interweaving of lyrics in warming up to this recording; and ditto three languages (Ukrainian, English and for lovers of Ukrainian folk songs. Spanish), as shown in its interpretation of From start to finish, “Fragmenty” is a such chestnuts as “Oi z-za Hory musical experience like no other, and Kamianoyi” and “Oi u Lisi.” Another total immersion is the only real way to oldie, “Oi u Poli Mohyla,” gets special savor this disc. treatment and is performed three times as In essence – although perhaps not three separate pieces in three different intentionally – this recording constitutes ways. a powerful, beautifully crafted tribute to Equally effective are the supporting the Ukrainian lyrical folk song tradition accompaniment and interludes provided and its overriding female dimensions: a in various combinations by bandura, per- rich sampling that underlines the plight cussion, viola, violin, guitar and overtone of the woman in village society in a most vocals. (Culture vultures will recognize eloquent way. These are haunting, the input of Julian Kytasty, our bandurist poignant and often gut-wrenching songs extraordinaire.) nipped out of their Old Country setting “Fragmenty” includes 17 musical and universalized. This is accomplished items performed by the Paris to Kyiv in many ways. Ensemble. Released by Olesia Records Especially stunning, for example, is (P.O. Box 2877, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 4B4), the single compact disc comes with a 12-page booklet mostly in Robert B. Klymasz, Ph.D., is curator English, including introductory remarks emeritus with the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Quebec. (Continued on page 17) CONCERT NOTES: Taras Kulish performs Wesolowsky selections by Orysia Paszczak Tracz Wesolowsky. This writer remembers dancing to these It was a jewel of an evening – a sold- beautiful and catching melodies at dances out select crowd, brilliant accompanists, in Newark, N.J., and at the Ukrainian an elegant setting and a singer with a American Youth Association’s (SUM) voice you could listen to forever. Bass- resort in Ellenville, and her father collect- baritone Taras Kulish of Montreal fin- ing the 78s of all these songs. The melodies ished up his working visit to Winnipeg and lyrics have never been forgotten. with a recital at Oseredok, the Ukrainian To the delight of the audience, Mr. Cultural and Educational Center, on Kulish said he was in the process of Sunday, November 6. recording an album of Wesolowsky His recital was called “Namaliuy Meni songs, which “will take all of 2006 to get Nich” or “Paint the Night,” and played to done, so it will probably be available in a sold-out audience in the art gallery of the fall of 2006 or the beginning of 2007 Oseredok. at the very latest.” Mr. Kulish had just completed singing As an aside and connection to the past, Colline in the successful Manitoba Opera He noted that some of the original run of “La Boheme,” and before depart- recordings had Mr. Kulish’s aunt, ing for Montreal generously presented Myrosia Verbytska, singing some Up to 90% LTV. Maximum loan: $200,000 this musical evening to the community. Wesolowsky songs. In the first part of the program, he sang Mr. Kulish dedicated the second half to arias from Ukrainian, French and English Lorne and Kathleen Campbell, the parents * All rates subject to change without notice. operas and musicals. He explained that of his close friend, Duncan Campbell, he sang them in the order in which he who was a stage manager at the Opéra de learned his first languages in his native Montréal, “who passed away much too Montreal. He was accompanied on the soon.” Mr. Kulish added that “since his piano by Shannon Hiebert. death I have become very close to his par- After intermission – and here is where ents. They have been big supporters of the name of the recital comes in, from mine.” The Campbells were celebrating 0035 120105 one of the well-known waltzes – Mr. their 60th wedding anniversary. Kulish sang 12 songs by Bohdan Understandably, but regrettably, there Wesolowsky, also of Montreal. He was was no encore. During the reception, accompanied by Ms. Hiebert, and also by sponsored by Carpathia Credit Union, Ian Hodges on guitar. The bass-baritone Mr. Kulish explained that after the stren- was powerful in the arias, and lyrically uous run of “La Boheme,” this recital romantic and gentle in the Wesolowsky was enjoyable but as much as he could songs. do. From Winnipeg, he returned to Introducing Mr. Kulish, Bohdana Montreal to prepare for “The Messiah” Bashuk, the executive administrator of with the Orchestre Symphonique de Trois Oseredok, reminisced about how she and Rivieres, as bass soloist, and to the so many Ukrainians grew up to the tan- Montreal Symphony Orchestra as soloist gos, waltzes, foxtrots and rumbas of in Nielsen’s third Symphony. No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2005 11

“A kindergartner with a sword” BOOK NOTE: “Persha Zirka,” ready to conquer New York a collection of holiday verses by Halyna Klid “Persha Zirka: Zbirnyk Vinshuvan,” (First Star: A EDMONTON – Seventeen-year old Collection of Verses”), compiled by Elizabeth (Eta) Archer is in New York Eta Archer. Edmonton: Ukrainian these days. For the next 10 months she Language Education Center, will be living in the Big Apple, where Canadian Institute of Ukrainian she’ll be studying at the American Studies, 2004 (second edition). Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA) – Softcover, spiral bound, 60 pp. alma mater of many well-known and $14.95 (Canadian). much-loved names in the American entertainment industry. EDMONTON – “Persha Zirka” Despite her tender years, the native of (First Star) is a collection of folk Edmonton, Alberta, holds an impressive verse representing elements of the portfolio of achievements as a student, winter cycle. Compiled by Elizabeth musician and singer, community leader, (Eta) Archer, it includes verses of volunteer and active member of the Plast greetings and best wishes for Ukrainian Scouting Organization. Christmas and the New Year. She is also the compiler of a beautiful The materials were collected pri- book of Ukrainian Christmas and New marily from informants in Canada, Year greetings in verse published under underscoring the continuing impor- the title “Persha Zirka.” Elizabeth (Eta) Archer tance of folk practices such as carol- Below, Miss Archer talks about her ing and “vinshuvannia” (greetings new life in New York, where she some- My plans for New York City were ini- for Christmas and the New Year) for times feels like “a kindergartner with a tially just to survive here. However, sur- new generations of Ukrainian sword” ready to conquer the city. vival is different than really truly living, Canadians. and so if I can actually live in this big What are your overall impressions The compiler, Miss Archer, is now city, I will have been able to conquer it of the Big Apple? The most and the 17. The first edition of her book was by my standards. I don’t know if I could least pleasant; people, places, mood, released in a self-published edition in or would want to live here for the rest of life on the streets, culture, etc.? the fall of 2002; it was later picked my life. The grand life plan I created for up by the Ukrainian Language New York is exactly how you’d think myself when I was 7 has taken a few Education Center at the Canadian Ukrainian-language vinshuvannia has it would be ... loud, brash, abrupt, detours, so who knows where I’ll end up? Institute of Ukrainian Studies based at been found to be a handy resource for bustling, stressful, magical and chaotic. the University of Alberta in Edmonton. “koliadnyky,” or carolers, as they go What was the biggest surprise of One is as much a New Yorker after 10 The second edition is beautifully illus- house to house in keeping with Ukrainian all? minutes of being here as after 10 years of trated by Iryna Karpenko, an Edmonton tradition, and offer best wishes and bless- being here, I think. You walk down the The pigeons. They are wickedly fear- artist. ings to their hosts. street and can hear 20 different lan- less – almost to the point of being terri- Miss Archer dedicates the book to her The book contains a bilingual guages, see famous landmarks and your fying. Being around these vicious birds parents and her friends in Plast Ukrainian (Ukrainian-English) foreword and pref- senses are just attacked by everything. has awakened my dormant pigeon-hatred Scouting Organization. Her book actually ace that briefly explain the significance It’s hard to take it all in. Every neighbor- gene (which likely happened when one began as a Plast project. She sent letters of Ukrainian folk verses and traditions, hood has a different mood and a different intrepid bird latched onto my pant legs all over Ukraine, Canada and the United as well as such collections of folklore. feel to it. Each little division is a country and I had to literally shake it off my leg). States, asking that recipients send her any Miss Archer says of the book: “In my of its own. I have become weary of their audacious vinshuvannia they knew. She received opinion, ‘Persha Zirka’ is a resource that antics now. over 100 replies and was overwhelmed strengthens ties to our heritage and What are your plans for this big by this unexpected response. allows us to gain a greater appreciation city? How are you going to conquer it? Do you feel yourself a little girl in The verses collected were both old and and understanding of our culture.” the big city or a strong individual new, historic and modern. Miss Archer The book may be purchased for $14.95 and her mother formatted the collected Halyna Klid is a graphic designer, ready to take it on? If the latter, then, (Canadian), or $12.95 (U.S.), plus ship- verses into a book that was sold at the writer and translator. She works at the what keeps you strong? ping and applicable taxes, from: Ukrainian youth Christmas bazaar, with proceeds Ukrainian Language Education Center, Language Resource Center, Canadian Sometimes I am a little girl, kind of earmarked to help orphans in Ukraine. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 450 lost and wandering around this giant Now, three years later, the author’s University of Alberta, where she devel- Athabasca Hall, University of Alberta, playground, wondering why I ever came proceeds from the second edition also ops and prepares print and digital publi- Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E8, Canada. here. Other times I feel like I can take on benefit Ukraine’s orphans. cations of Ukrainian language resources Inquiries can be made by fax, (780) The spiral-bound book of 60 pages of for bilingual education programs. (Continued on page 17) 492-4967, or e-mail, [email protected].

NEWARLINGTON, RELEASE: Va. – Ukraivin (stuf Anfed cabbage instructional rolls), and strutslia there wasDVD a void that neededon toUkrainian be filled.” accomplished artistcooking Olya Chodoba-Fryz Productions has released an instructional (braided Christmas bread). Ms. Terleckyj further noted, “A lot of (www.olyfryz.com) who has been enter- cooking DVD, “Ukrainian Christmas “As with many cultures, much of the the wonderful recipes prepared by our taining audiences for over 20 years. Eve,” which provides detailed, yet sim- Ukrainian culture is preserved through mothers and grandmothers are being lost For more information, or to order the plified, instructions on how to make the the observance of holiday food, ritual and and need to be preserved and passed DVD online, readers are advised to visit most popular, traditional recipes. The custom. Because cooking and baking can down to our generation. We hope to fill www.ukraivin.com. two-hour English-language DVD shows be rather complicated, following recipes this void with this instructional cooking the “must have” Christmas Eve recipes, in a cookbook alone is often not enough DVD. Realizing there is no one way to which have been modified, wherever – visual depiction always helps,” said prepare the Ukrainian Christmas Eve possible, for busy, modern cooks using Tatiana Terleckyj, director and executive meal, we strive to present the traditional today’s modern kitchens. producer of the DVD. recipes using time-saving methods. In Chef and host Pavlo Czerwoniak takes Ms. Terleckyj, along with co-creators, putting together this DVD, we take into the viewer step-by-step through each Katerina Sloniewsky-Ntep and Marijka consideration the fact that in today’s recipe, using time- and labor-saving tech- Lischak (secretary of Ukrainian National households, with both parents working, niques. Along with the printable recipe Association Branch 15) grew up in it’s difficult enough to juggle day-to-day files provided on the DVD, the viewer Ukrainian households and learned tradi- living, let alone prepare a 12-course will learn how to overcome the often- tional Ukrainian cooking from their meal.” times monumental task of putting togeth- mothers and grandmothers. The 17-chapter DVD also has inform- er a traditional Ukrainian Christmas Eve Ms. Terleckyj, who has over 20 years’ ative chapters explaining Ukrainian tradi- meal. experience in television production, goes tions and customs. In addition to the Some dishes are prepared in the tradi- on to explain, “A year or so ago, Marijka, printable recipe files that may be printed tional way, such as kutia (honey-sweet- Katerina and I helped organize a using a PC or Mac, the user-friendly ened wheat dish) and uzvar (dried fruit Ukrainian paska-and babka-making class DVD allows the viewer to navigate the compote), while others are prepared in for our local branch of the Ukrainian menu, using a television or computer time-saving ways, like the dough for National Women’s League of America. screen, to view either the entire DVD or varenyky (potato- and cabbage-filled There was great interest in this particular select individual recipes. dumplings), meatless borshch (beet class, and we realized there was a lot of The DVD also features traditional soup), ushka (mushroom-filled overall interest in Ukrainian cooking and Ukrainian Christmas carols performed on dumplings), fish in aspic, holubtssi keeping our traditions alive. And we felt bandura by multi-faceted performer and 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2005 No. 50

FFOOCCUUSS OONN PPHHIILLAATTEELLYY by Ingert Kuzych, Peter Cybaniak and Roman Dubyniak

Hutsul memorabilia The highest and most picturesque part landers known as the Hutsuls (Ukrainian of the Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains is plural: Hutsuly). Most of this region falls populated by a distinctive group of high- in today’s Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, but

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Figure 4 also includes parts of the Zakarpattia and locally as the Hutsul Battalion, officially the Chernivtsi oblasts. Prior to World War I, unit was labeled a volunteer battalion. The these areas were part of the Galician and Hutsul Battalion never achieved the level of Bukovynian provinces in the multi-ethnic recognition that the Ukrainian Legion Austro-Hungarian Empire. (Ukrainski Sichovi Striltsi) from neighbor- In a Focus on Philately article of 2001, ing Galicia (Halychyna) was able to obtain. we described a “Hutsul Battalion” of some The Hutsul highlanders, however, also 1,000 men that was apparently formed in the formed a large part of the population in spring of 1915 in Bukovyna and that served Halychyna. Many of their number ended up in the Austro-Hungarian army during World (Continued on page 13) War I. Subsequent research has revealed that this Hutsul Battalion and an associated 1 Northern Bukovyna was largely Ukrainian, Romanian Battalion were formed into a while southern Bukovyna had a Romanian Figure 2 Bukovynian Legion.1 Although referred to majority.

Figure 5 Figure 6 Figure 7 No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2005 13 joining a K.k. Schutzen Regiment No. 36 collectors – Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian – eagerly (Imperial Austrian Defense Regiment No. search for these badges, as well as buttons, tokens, 36) shortly after the outbreak of the war in ribbons, medals, etc. from the first world war.) late July 1914. According to Austrian war The badge is meant to symbolize the defense of records, this unit was Ukrainian-Polish. the Hutsul region. Across the top, under the out- However, the regiment’s recruitment base stretched wings of the imperial Austrian double- was Kolomyia, the very center of the headed eagle, is the unit’s name: K.k. Schutzen Ukrainian Hutsul region, where the Polish Regiment No. 36. Depicted in the center of the population was minuscule. In all likelihood, image is a Hutsul leather bag (dzobenka) and since the Poles controlled most of the posi- crossed Hutsul axes (topirtsi; singular: topirets). tions of power in the Galician province of On the left, a Ukrainian soldier defends the Hutsul the Austro-Hungarian Empire, they influ- region against the Italian panther (puma) in a tree, enced the records to reflect favorably upon while on the right, the Ukrainian defender battles a themselves. It is quite probable, however, rearing Russian bear. Across the bottom is the slo- that this regiment was in fact almost com- gan: “Vytrymaty khloptsi!” This can be translated pletely Ukrainian, with just a few non- as: Hold out (endure) to the very end, lads! Ukrainian higher ranking officers. Hutsuls on postcards In August of 1914 the regiment consist- ed of three battalions of 1,200 men each We would like to supplement our description (3,600 men in total). By the beginning of of this important piece of Hutsul memorabilia May 1915, the battalion strength was with a presentation of Hutsul life and customs as down to just one and a half battalions. seen on postcards of the early 20th century. Half of its men had been killed, wounded The Hutsuls are widely renowned for their col- or taken prisoner during the Russian orful and elaborately decorated clothing and handi- offensive early in the war that overran crafts. Figure 2 shows a typical Hutsul couple in Bukovyna and large swaths of Halychyna. their distinctive costumes; Figure 3 displays a vari- With German aid, the Austrian army ety of carved, inlaid and embroidered Hutsul hand- was able to push back the Russians in the iwork; and Figure 4 shows Hutsuls blowing on spring of 1915. By September of that their mountain horns (trembity; singular: trembita). year, the regiment’s strength had been A Hutsul gent smoking his beloved pipe (liulka) rebuilt to two and a half battalions (about was a prevalent topic on postcards (Figures 5 to 7). 3,000 men). The soldiers of these battal- Hutsul customs, particularly those related to ions served in various fronts of the con- weddings, were another popular postcard subject. flict wherever they were most needed. Figure 8 shows a betrothed couple, three days The regiment survived until the end of before their wedding, as they make their rounds the war; the latest mention in the military inviting guests to the nuptials. Figure 9 shows a archival records is October 15, 1918. bridal procession, and Figure 10 the arrival of a bridegroom’s party. Figure 11 is of a young A special insignia newly married couple with their attendants. Caps, instead of helmets, were the ordi- Finally, for your pleasure, a photo of the senior nary head gear of many of the regular sol- author “transformed” into a Hutsul, with relatives diers in the Austrian army. It was common on a visit to Ukraine (Figure 12). for the men to emblazon these caps with badges of their various military forma- Further information about Ukrainian philately tions. Regiment No. 36 is known for creat- and collecting may be found on the website of the ing the one and only badge of the Austro- Ukrainian Philatelic and Numismatic Society: Hungarian army that had a Ukrainian www.upns.org. Dr. Ingert Kuzych may be contact- Figure 8 inscription. Figure 1 shows this badge in ed at P.O. Box 3, Springfield, VA 22150 regular size and enlarged. (Today, many or via e-mail at: ingert@starpowernet.

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Figure 11 Figure 12 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2005 No. 50 UMANA plans a major expansion of its web presence

by George Hrycelak variety of schools, post-secondary insti- bilingual status through cooperation with ful web expansion will significantly tutions and a worldwide audience. UKiP. increase the association’s reach, and CHICAGO – Representatives of the Members of UKiP include the UKiP members Dr. Roman Petryshyn include a large segment of Ukrainian- Ukrainian Medical Association of North Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (via teleconference), Anna Biscoe, Dr. speaking health care professionals for America (UMANA) and the Ukrainian (CIUS) at the University of Alberta, Bohdan Klid and Kim Robinson visited whom up to now this has been a difficult Knowledge Internet Portal Consortium Canada Ukraine Foundation, Ukrainian UMANA headquarters over the weekend task. Association (UKiP) met in Chicago Resource and Development Center at of October 15-17, meeting formally with One major change will have the basic recently to solidify plans for a major website exist in both languages, English expansion of UMANA’s Internet activity Grant MacEwan College and others. the board of directors to present their UMANA board members began pre- proposal for developing the UMANA and Ukrainian. A visitor could pick for the immediate future. between versions with a simple click of a UMANA’s president Andrew Iwach, liminary deliberations in Edmonton to website. Board members discussed the evaluate the possibility that UMANA’s various options and potential expansions button. Posted material would be trans- M.D., said he believes that “communica- lated and updated with new editions, website could be enhanced and raised to with enthusiasm, realizing that a success- tion via the worldwide web is the key to such as the currently posted issues of expanding medical knowledge and UMANA News and Likarskyi Visnyk resources to Ukrainians globally, at a fast (Journal of the Ukrainian Medical pace and reasonable cost.” UMANA’s Association of North America, current website has served admirably JUMANA). Options will be built in to until now. allow links to major medical resource Dr. Iwach explained that “UMANA is sites and permit viewing of select articles striving to become the first major Ukrainian of interest to the medical community. American professional group to fully incor- Another goal is to encourage porate the Ukrainian language into its web- UMANA members to begin to incorpo- site, thereby opening its resources to all.” rate the Internet as a basic learning He added that “Collaborating with our resource as well as communication cen- Canadian colleagues will lead to an effi- ter for association activities and knowl- cient partnership.” edge database. “If we can serve as a tem- While in Edmonton this summer for plate for other Ukrainian American pro- the UMANA Scientific Conference, fessional organizations in the diaspora, board members made contact with repre- so much the better,” reasoned Dr. Iwach. sentatives of UKiP, a consortium of At the UMANA board meeting on organizations dedicated to the develop- October 17, members voted to proceed ment and delivery of resources for learn- with the project to expand and amend the ing and appreciating the Ukrainian lan- www.umana.org website. Input on pro- guage and culture. Headquartered in UMANA-UKiP conference participants: (front, from left) Dr. Bohdan Klid, Anna posed changes will be sought from the Edmonton, UKiP coordinates, develops Biscoe and Kim Robinson of the Ukrainian Knowledge Internet Portal UMANA members, with enhancements and provides bilingual (English- Consortium Association with (rear) Dr. George Hrycelak and Dr. Andrew Iwach expected to be tested and completed by Ukrainian) online learning resources to a of the Ukrainian Medical Association of North America. early 2006. Shevchenko Society hosts young scholar’s talk on educational practices in Ukraine by Dr. Orest Popovych region, focusing primarily on high those expected of a good student in things Russian does not extend to a school students in Grades 9-11, with the Ukraine’s schools. The key element of desire for economic or political union NEW YORK – The headquarters of objective of analyzing their views on the national pedagogy in Ukraine is repeti- with Russia. the Shevchenko Scientific Society relationship between the nation and citi- tion without questioning, as well as com- The Orange Revolution brought pro- (NTSh) on October 29 hosted a talk by zenship. By way of background, Ms. pliance with the teacher’s rules and found changes in the way students view Anna Fournier titled “Educational Fournier examined the citizenship educa- demands, said the speaker. The teacher is their Ukrainian national identity, as well Practice and the Making of Citizens in tion curricula, including textbooks and always right and there is virtually no dis- as their relationship to the state, contin- Ukraine Before and After the Orange other teaching materials, in the courses cussion allowed in class. Moreover, stu- ued Ms. Fournier. No longer associated Revolution.” on civics, history, geography, folklore, dents as advanced as Grade 11 are still with a village culture, Ukraine has Ms. Fournier, a Ph.D. candidate in the Ukrainian language, Ukrainian literature, called “children” and are told that they become a modern political nation, the department of anthropology at Johns and the patriotic education component of “are too little to have an opinion.” flocus of the world’s attention. For the Hopkins University, based her lecture on the military preparedness course. With this type of pedagogic philoso- first time, said the students, Ukrainian a year of ethnographic fieldwork she had A major challenge inherent in the con- phy, the heavily stereotyped folkloric symbols became meaningful to them, carried out in the Kyiv region in 2004- tent of citizenship education in Ukraine, version of Ukrainian culture presented in while the experience of the “maidan” 2005, during which she also witnessed said Ms. Fournier, arises from the way class cannot be a source of pride to stu- (Independence Square in Kyiv) awak- the Orange Revolution, as well as similar dents, leading them to reject it. Students ened in them feelings of patriotism with- research trips in 1998 and 2003. Her last nationalism is contrasted with national culture and patriotism. Nationalism is oppose their teachers by feigning compli- out any connotation of compliance or trip to Kyiv was financed in part by a ance and by defiantly using Russian in obedience. The idea of a Ukrainian $3,000 grant from NTSh. seen as an ideology that is inherently negative, a synonym for chauvinism, class. According to Ms. Fournier, nation not only came forward, but In his welcoming remarks, NTSh Ukrainian culture as it is taught is devoid became the basis for a peaceful political Vice-President Dr. Orest Popovych intro- representing a threat to peace, order and stability of the state. Also, in the last few of Ukrainian self-assertiveness and is action against the state. duced Ms. Fournier as an example of a viewed by students as “marginal,” com- Furthermore, the Orange Revolution success story for NTSh’s program of years, much of Ukraine’s population became disillusioned with the national pared to the Russian language and cul- made the students more aware of their scholarships and grants for deserving ture, which they consider “global.” idea by associating it with the lack of students in the field of Ukrainian studies. Nevertheless, the students’ preference for He explained that NTSh grant money economic prosperity, continued Ms. (Continued on page 16) comes from the long-term named funds Fournier. established at the society by patriotic Therefore, citizenship in Ukraine is members of the Ukrainian community not grounded in nationalism. Instead, who decided to support Ukrainian stud- Ukraine’s state authorities as well as ies with their generosity. schools promote the idea of a national Dr. Popovych urged those in the audi- culture that is marked, in Ms. Fournier’s ence who can afford it to immortalize words, by excessive folkloricization, their own names by creating at NTSh paternalism and infantilization. National their named funds with tax-deductible culture defined in this manner is benign contributions, thereby supporting and depoliticized. Therefore, it offers lit- Ukrainian scholarship and education. tle resistance to the aggressive process of A more substantive introduction of the present-day Russification, according to guest speaker was given by Prof. Vasyl Ms. Fournier. Makhno, who chaired the program. As a result, citizenship education in After thanking NTSh for the financial Ukraine today promotes a tame version support, Ms. Fournier began by raising of patriotism that is supposed to origi- the question of whether Ukrainian nate from one’s soul, while in practice it schools were succeeding in creating is associated with the concept of order, patriotic, nationally conscious citizenry, obedience and spectatorship, as opposed and whether the Orange Revolution has to initiative, social responsibility and had any effect on the educational active participation, continued Ms. process. Fournier. Her research covered several schools These presumably desirable qualities At the Shevchenko Scientific Society (from left): Prof. Vasyl Makhno, Dr. Roman – public, private, village – in the Kyiv of a good patriot-citizen coincide with Voronka, Anna Fournier and Dr. Orest Popovych. No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2005 15

Theater in a Basket represents Ukraine at I-Fest of solo performances by Irene Antonovych annual festival of international solo performances. The “White Butterflies, Plaited Chains” draws its text chosen plays emphasized the mysterious uniqueness of from the novel and letters of Vasyl Stefanyk. The work CHICAGO – The Theater in a Basket under the the individual independent of group associations. is a meditation on the themes of love and suffering, sin direction of Iryna Volytska-Zubko, Ph.D., with leading The festival ran from October 22 through October 30 and redemption, hopelessness and hopefulness. The actress Lidia Danylchuk, arrived in Chicago on October at the Chopin Theater, a private establishment celebrat- play does not have a specific plot; rather, it consists of 18 to prepare for their first appearance in the United ing its 15th anniversary. Guests have included Pulitzer 13 episodes depicting women characters confronting the States to represent Ukraine in I-Fest. It was the first Prize winners Gwendolyn Brooks, Yusef Komunyakaa various problems of human existence. and Studs Terkel; writers Stuart Dybek, Sara Paretsky Ms. Danylchuk gives life and magic to this perform- and Zadie Smith; poets Nikki Giovanni and Luis ance through her use of voice, plasticity, rhythm, instru- Rodriguez; actors John Cusak and Jeremy Piven; musi- ments, such as the bird-whistle and Jewish harp (“drym- cians Grazyna Auguscik, Peter Brotzman, Chuck D., ba”), and ritual songs of the Carpathian region. She Kurt Elling and Von Freeman. delivers this physically demanding role effortlessly and The Chopin Theater has produced over 110 of its with precision, conveying psychological states that own productions, mostly from Poland and Eastern completely absorb the viewer. Ms. Danylchuk uses her Europe, and has hosted performers from probably every body as an instrument, at times beating the ground with state in the United States and from over 40 countries. her knees, elbows and hands to create the hypnotic The countries represented in this first I-Fest were: sounds of life’s heartbeat, which is simultaneously an France (Marie Sophie Ferdane in “Music Hall”), inevitable death march. Germany (Claudia Wiedemer in “Grete”), Lithuania (Continued on page 16) (Birute Mar in “The Lover”), Poland (Janusz Stolarski in “Behold the Man”), Switzerland (Jurg Kienberger in “I Am so Alone”), and Ukraine (Ms. Danylchuk in “White Butterflies, Plaited Chains”). Ms. Danylchuk graduated from Karpenko-Karyi National Theater Institute in Kyiv. She has had a success- ful stage career in the top theaters of Odesa and Lviv. In 1997, together with Dr. Volytska-Zubko, she co-founded an independent art studio, Theater in a Basket, in which she is the leading actress. She has received acclaim and many awards for her acting, including the Ivan Kotliarevsky National Theatrical Award. The director, Dr. Volytska-Zubko, is a specialist in drama studies, a critic, stage director and winner of the Les Kurbas National Theater Award. She graduated from the St. Petersburg Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography. She puts theory into practice as the stage and art director of Theater in a Basket, which as of 2004 became an affiliate of the Les Kurbas National Center for Dramatic Art in Kyiv. Dr. Volytska-Zubko is the author of several mono- graphs and many articles on the history of Ukrainian theater. As stage director of Theater in a Basket, she has produced six critically acclaimed modern interpretations Lidia Danylchuk of Theater in a Basket. of Ukrainian classics.

“Teatr u Koshyku” performs in New York City by Diana Howansky portions of other Shevchenko works, such as the poem “Caucasus,” but also weaved in contemporary modern NEW YORK – The independent arts group “Teatr u Ukrainian music. Koshyku” (Theater in a Basket) from Ukraine gave a “We appeal to history, as well as to today. This is a special performance at Columbia University in New performance – parting with the totalitarian system in York City on Friday, November 11, illustrating the any of its forms, with post-imperial syndromes and Columbia Ukrainian Studies Program’s recent increase complexes of national inferiority,” said Iryna Volytska- in support for Ukrainian cultural events. Zubko, the director and co-founder of Teatr u Koshyku, Teatr u Koshyku, made up of artists who live in Lviv, who graduated from the St. Petersburg Institute of A scene from “White Butterflies, Plaited Chains.” but most often perform their theater productions in the Theater, Music and Cinematography and recently won capital of Kyiv, came to the United States in November the Les Kurbas National Theatrical Award. as participants of the “Best of European Solo Acts” fes- While designed for an educated, sophisticated viewer, tival in Chicago. At a time when most Ukrainian artists Background: according to Ms. Volytska-Zubko, Teatr u Koshyku’s are invited to the United States by the diaspora, this fes- works utilize minimalist set designs. Even the group’s tival invitation testifies to Teatr u Koshyku’s appeal to Stefanyk’s novellas broad audiences. name developed because everything that is used on the set In Chicago, Teatr u Koshyku performed the theatrical of “White Butterflies, Plaited Chains” can fit into a basket, The Stefanyk novella, which is “characterized by production which the group staged on its very first open- which exists in reality and was weaved by Ms. Danylchuk a succinct and highly dramatic form used to capture ing night, on June 15, 1997, and which has continued to years ago for carrying her baby son. In “The Dream,” the single crucial moments in the life of a hero,” lends draw crowds for almost 10 years – a production titled only prop used by Ms. Danylchuk is a broom. itself particularly well to staging. “White Butterflies, Plaited Chains,” based on letters and “I found the actual performance to be amazing. I was The heroes of Stefanyk’s stories are for the most novellas by Ukrainian writer Vasyl Stefanyk (1871-1936). totally captivated for an entire hour by a single actress part peasants from his native Pokuttia. Against the At Columbia University, actress Lidia Danylchuk, using nothing but a broom for a prop,” said one audi- general background of poverty or war Stefanyk one of Teatr u Koshyku’s co-founders, gave a solo the- ence member, attorney and writer Dr. Bohdan Vitvitsky. showed his heroes in a universal dilemma, con- ater performance based on “The Dream,” the famous “I was grateful to be able to hear Shevchenko per- fronting the pain at the heart of existence. Stefanyk work written in 1844 by Ukrainian poet Taras formed on stage. We all revere him, but are but superfi- concentrated on capturing the turbulence of the Shevchenko. Ms. Danylchuk, who graduated from the cially acquainted with his works.” soul, the inner agony, which revealed the psycho- renowned Karpenko-Karyi National Theater Institute in Teatr u Koshyku’s other performances include con- logical complexity of the hero. Kyiv, is a winner of the Ivan Kotliarevsky National temporary interpretations of Ukrainian classics by Ivan His characterizations were achieved through the Theatrical Award. Franko, Lesia Ukrainka and others. Currently, the group speech of the characters. Words spoken became Unlike other presentations of “The Dream” offering a is working on a number of new projects, including a important not only for their meaning but also for straightforward reading of this poem, Teatr u Koshyku performance to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Ivan the elements of “skaz,” which throw direct light on presented a dramatic interpretation that highlighted the Franko’s birth. the character’s emotional state, personality, social work’s political satire, sarcasm and parody. For an hour For more information about Columbia Ukrainian position and degree of literacy. The special blend of and a half, the solo actress held the audience’s attention Studies Program events, please contact ukrainianstud- literary Ukrainian and the Pokuttia dialect created a with her wide-ranging talent, beginning as the main [email protected] or (212) 854-4697. flavor not easily duplicated or translated. Stefanyk’s novellas have been successfully staged character who flies above the Earth having apocalyptic * * * visions, and then transforming herself into crows that by Volodymyr Blavatsky and adapted for film symbolize the evil powers of the Ukrainian, Russian and Teatr u Koshyku, featuring Ms. Danylchuk in a solo (“Kaminnyi Khrest,” screenplay by Ivan Drach). Polish nations, as well as into the despotic figures of the performance, also appeared at the Shevchenko Scientific Excerpted from the entry on Vasyl Stefanyk writ- tsar and tsarina in St. Petersburg. Society on November 13, with the production “White ten by Danylo H. Struk in the Encyclopedia of The Teatr u Koshyku performance, which portrayed Butterflies, Plaited Chains,” based on narrative vignettes Ukraine, (University of Toronto, 1993). the tragedy of Ukrainian history, not only incorporated by Stefanyk, master of the short story genre. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2005 No. 50

“Archives and Manuscripts of the Thefts... Shevchenko Scientific Society in the CLACLASSSSIFIEDIFIEDSS (Continued from page 8) Holdings of the National Library of TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL MARIA OSCISLAWSKI, (973) 292-9800 x 3040 tions and assisted many scholars in carry- Warsaw,” was recently published (Warsaw-Lviv-New York 2005). This or e-mail: [email protected] ing on research. Iaroslav Dashkevych, a leading scholar and former dissident, and catalogue will provide a unique docu- his colleagues Ivan and Halyna Svarnyk, mentary source for the political, social SERVICES have worked with great dedication to pre- and cultural history of Ukraine in the first serve and catalogue Ukraine’s archival half of the 20th century. legacy (e.g., the materials in the Polish Mr. Misilo, who was in Toronto recently, said that, despite his numerous National Library) and are known for their The appeals, Ukrainian government officials professionalism and expertise. continuously refused to get involved in The allegations that each side raises LUNA BAND helping him retrieve the portion of the against the other are profoundly troubling Music for weddings, zabavas, plundered Lviv archives that have to all who know them. Many of us are festivals, anniversary celebrations. remained in Silesia. reading the various statements and observ- OLES KUZYSZYN phone/fax: (732) 636-5406 He also mentioned that, in the period e-mail: [email protected] ing the authorities’ actions carefully. of time that he has worked on the Lviv *** archives in Warsaw, Mr. Boriak had not shown any interest in them or come to Since 1989 Evhen Misilo, director of Warsaw to look at them. Recently, how- the Ukrainian Archives in Warsaw, has ever, Mr. Boriak appeared in Warsaw been researching and cataloguing with Lviv Director Pelz trying to find archives of the Ukrainian Shevchenko some compromising evidence on Ms. Scientific Society found in Warsaw that Svarnyk, asking around whether there were removed in 1944 by the retreating had been any complaints by anyone Nazis from Lviv to Silesia and later against Ms. Svarnyk. brought to Warsaw. Assisting Mr. Misilo, on a part-time basis, has been Halyna Svarnyk of the Lviv Archives. Mr. Misilo éëàè ÉÄÇêàãûä emphasized that Ms. Svarnyk was a dedi- Correction èðÓÙÂÒ¥ÈÌËÈ ÔðÓ‰‡‚ˆ¸ cated and professional archivist whose In Oksana Zakydalsky’s previous arti- Á‡·ÂÁÔ˜ÂÌÌfl ìçë work on the collection of documents in cle about the Lviv Archives (November JOSEPH HAWRYLUK Warsaw was invaluable. As a result of 6) the author incorrectly spelled the sur- Licensed Agent her work, a 350-page catalogue, name of Ivan and Halyna Svarnyk. Ukrainian National Assn., Inc. 79 Southridge Drive, West Seneca, NY 14224-4442 Fournier. Tel.:(716) 674-5185, Fax: (716) 675-2238 Recommendations and pedagogic E-mail:[email protected] Shevchenko Society... WEST2282 Bloor St. W., Toronto, ARKA Ont., Canada M6S 1N9 (Continued from page 14) strategies on how to accomplish this will be offered in Ms. Fournier’s doctoral dis- Fine Gifts rights and demonstrated to them that power can be acquired by the people in a sertation titled “Education and Authentic Ukrainian Handicrafts Citizenship in the Era of Ukraine’s Art, Books, CDs, Ceramics Andrew R. CHORNY peaceful way, provided there is a collec- tive will. Subsequently, some students Orange Revolution.” To facilitate the Embroidered Goods and Supplies Manager writing of this dissertation, NTSh has Gold Jewelery, Icons, Magazines have tried to apply elements of the revo- awarded Ms. Fournier a grant totaling Newspapers, Pysankas and Supplies lution to their school situations, as in All Services to Ukraine, Mail-orders opposing the perceived injustices from $8,000 for the next two semesters. their teachers and principals. A letter from NTSh informing her of Tel.: (416) 762-8751 Fax: (416) 767-6839 Unfortunately, the lessons of the maidan this award was presented to Ms. Fournier e-mail: [email protected] www.westarka.com have yet to be integrated into Ukraine’s by Dr. Roman Voronka, chairman of the school curriculum, concluded Ms. NTSh Committee on Scholarships and PROFESSIONALS Grants, at the conclusion of her lecture.

robe, bells, “kalatalo” and flute, which Theater... are suspended and illuminated in the (Continued from page 15) black space, with a small rocking horse LAW OFFICIES OF standing on the black ground. The stark ZENON B. MASNYJ, ESQ. Ms. Danylchuk comes from the same Since 1983 region as Stefanyk, who was born in lighting emphasizes the elemental forces of life and death, referring to the images • Serious Personal Injury Rusiv, Sniatin county, Halychyna, and • Real Estate/Coop Closings easily recreates the special blend of liter- of black and white butterflies that serve • Business Representation ary Ukrainian and the Pokutia dialect that as key metaphors of the play. FATA MORGANA • Securities Arbitration • Divorces he used. 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Ô. just Eta, a kindergartner with a sword, this book in our hands or on our coffee but the thing that keeps me strong is my tables? family and friends. Sometimes it’s hard to get up in the These “vinshuvannia” have been mornings, knowing that they’re so far around for generations, their words have WOLODYMYR away, but knowing that I have these been said by many, and, with this book, amazing people in my life, having their you can hear the echoes of the voices of love and support in my heart, I can keep our past and pass them on to the voices VELYCHENKO WOROCH going. I guess that’s pretty cliché and of the future. born March 9, 1915, in the town of Kryvenke, Ternopil obl. trite, but it’s the bald and sincere truth. Simply put, the book is a celebration of Parastas was held on Thursday, December 8, 2005, at 7:30 p.m. tradition; it allows us to look back and see Has being of Ukrainian heritage at the Peter Jarema Funeral Home in New York City. how people lived before us and, embracing played any part in your life now, as a that, we can, in turn, use it to create our Funeral services were held on Friday, December 9, 2005 at 9:45 a.m. student in the Big Apple? own traditions and foster a pride in who we at St. George’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in New York City, followed by My Ukrainian heritage has played a are and where we have come from. interment at St. Andrew’s Cemetery in South Bound Brook, N.J. huge role in my life, and living in New In deep sorrow: York is no exception. I’ve been to Little You are only 17. If you had to make Ukraine a few times so far, and I find I a definite choice now, what would you wife: Maria feel really at home talking to people in like to be? daughter: Zwenyslawa-Anizia son: Lubomyr stores or restaurants in Ukrainian. I was Obviously being an actor would be a overly excited when I spotted Taras grandchildren: Chrysanna Anizia dream; being able to do something I love Lubomyr with wife Linda and family Shevchenko Place. I am eager to attend for the rest of my life would be fantastic. some Ukrainian plays and concerts here Luboslav I have begun to realize, though, that Andrea and have been delighted to see people sometimes where you’re going is not walking around casually in “vyshyvani Tatianna where you end up and, with that in mind, nephews: Bohdar with wife Martha and family sorochky” [embroidered shirts] or using the thing I would like to be is happy. red dancing boots as everyday acces- Sviatoslav with wife Luba and family I would like to be happy in whatever I Roman with wife Oksana and family sories. It’s that link that ties me back to do, wherever I am and with where my Edmonton and to my roots, which, in a Leonid Huta with wife Luba and family life leads me. If I can achieve that, I have new city, is rather nice. nieces: Rosanna done something right. I also find myself so much more patri- Nadia Bodnar with family otic, and so much more grateful that I Anizia Verokina with family can and will always call Canada home. I Marucia Olynyk with family listen to CBC radio on the Internet and I “Fragmenty”... cousins: Ira Luboshchuk-Velychenko watch CTV news on an online newscast, (Continued from page 10) Eugenia Sai in-laws: Oksana which gives me a little taste of home. I by Marcia Ostashewski, song texts (in never thought Lloyd Robertson would Josephine Kachaluba with son Boris Ukrainian), interpretive notes and art- and daughter Martha and family make me so happy! design by Ron Sawchuk. Your book, “Persha Zirka,” has This is perhaps the most stylish extended family in the U.S., Canada and Ukraine Ukrainian compact disc ever produced, been published. Is this project over for Eternal memory. you since you became a student at the and kudos are deserved by all members AADA? of the team that worked to realize this project. According to one of the annota- “Persha Zirka” has been in my life for tions printed in the booklet, “Time pass- almost four years now, and I am so proud es, the theme evolves, final sleep of what the book has become. The initial becomes a new consciousness and the project is done. The book was compiled, journey continues” – a super metaphor edited and published. Now the next step for this latest CD from the Paris to Kyiv has begun – a step that rests on the Ensemble. Ukrainian community – wherein people The CD is available at olesia.com.

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The 5 p.m Mass on Saturday, December 17, 2005, at TATIANA LELITKA ULIANA St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church in Passaic, N.J., will be held in memory of: JAWNY OTTO Ivan and Stefania, Mychailo and Maria, beloved wife, mother, daughter and sister passed away on December 5, 2005. Volodymyr, Roman, and Olenka The family will receive friends at the Moriarty Funeral Home, Montclair, N.J., on Friday, December 9, from 7-9 p.m. Funeral services will be held at St. Cassian Eternal Memory! Church, Montclair, N.J., on Sunday, December 10, at 10 a.m., followed by inter- ment at Mt. Hebron Cemetery, Montclair, N.J. dedicated by the surviving members of the She will be deeply missed by her: Wirszczuk Family husband: Keith Otto sons: Kyle, Jack and Max parents: Dr. Lubomir and Dzwenyslava Jawny DEATH ANNOUNCEMENTS sisters: Dr. Olha Sokhan with husband Dr. Oleh and son Nestor to be published in The Ukrainian Weekly – in the Ukrainian Lada Jawny Gawdiak with husband Yuri or English language – are accepted by mail, courier, fax, phone or e-mail. and sons Lev and Zakhar Deadline: Tuesday noon before the newspaper’s date of issue. brother: Roman Jawny (The Weekly goes to press early Friday mornings.) along with the Krawciw and Diachuk families, as well as distant relatives in Rate: $7.50 per column-inch. the U.S.A., Canada and Ukraine. Information should be addressed to the attention of the Advertising Department and sent to: The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280 (NB: please In lieu of flowers, donations to the American Cancer Society or the Memorial do not include post office box if sending via courier), Parsippany, N.J. 07054; fax, (973) 644-9510; telephone, (973) 292-9800, ext. 3040; Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center would be appreciated. e-mail, [email protected]. Vichnaya Pamyat. Please include the daytime phone number of a contact person. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2005 No. 50 No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2005 19

Carpathian Ski Club holds annual social and elections at Soyuzivka KERHONKSON, N.Y. – The Carpathian Ski Club (known by its Ukrainian-based acronym as KLK) of Canada and the United States held its annual elections at the Soyuzivka estate owned by the Ukrainian National Association on October 1-2. During the course of the weekend, a friendly tennis tournament was held on Saturday morning, followed by an informal awards luncheon outsidethe Vorokhta villa. The festivities later moved to the Tiki bar for a formal cocktail hour, followed by dinner and dancing to the music of Vidlunnia in the beautifully decorated lobby of the Main House. The Ukrainian Weekly Editor-in-Chief Roma Hadzewycz was honored during the dinner with a plaque and flowers in recognition of her continuous help in sup- porting and publicizing KLK activities in America and Ukraine. Longtime KLK activist Vira Popel was greeted with flow- ers on the occasion of her birthday. Sunday’s events began with breakfast and concluded with elections of the KLK leadership. The elections were held after the presentation of reports by the outgo- ing KLK officers. The proposed slate of the KLK board was unanimously accepted with Erko Palydowycz as president, Ms. Popel as vice-president, Adia Fedash as treasurer and Christine Klufas as secretary. Ski event coordinators are Orest Fedash and Zenon Stakhiv, tennis coordinators are George Popel and Ivan Durbak, and the golf coordinator is Andriy Kachala. George Popel is the KLK’s delegate to USCAK. The next KLK event is the annual ski races at Windham in upstate New York scheduled for March 4. Carpathian Ski Club members at the conclusion of their annual gathering at Soyuzivka. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2005 No. 50 No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2005 21 “Verkhovynky” Plast sorority celebrates two years since rebirth by Laryssa Czebiniak enjoyed a renaissance in 1970. When members moved up to the very active KERHONKSON, N.Y. – On October senior branch, young adult membership 29, the young adult (“starshi plastunky”) ceased. Then in 2003, three starshi plas- members of the Plast Ukrainian Scouting tunky – Larissa Babij, Lesya Hentisz and Organization’s “Verkhovynky” sorority Laryssa Czebiniak – decided to take up gathered at Soyuzivka for the second straight year for their annual meeting, or the challenge of restarting the sisterhood. “rada.” They were commemorating the Since that time, the Verkhovynky have second anniversary of the sisterhood’s attracted an enthusiastic group of 11 rebirth. multi-talented women: dancers, singers, It was a jam-packed schedule. The musicians, painters and actors. meeting’s morning program included The sorority’s main differentiating performances by the newest candidates. quality is its focus on the performing Later the group hiked up to the waterfalls arts. Another mission is to encourage that were finally flowing with water. Plast members to be in touch with Eating lunch with a breath-stopping view today’s Ukraine, so that they can direct of distant snow-capped autumn moun- their efforts to satisfy Ukraine’s current tains was fitting for this sisterhood, needs. Other Verkhovynky interests whose symbol depicts mountains. include exploring the mythological An intriguing element of the day was a beliefs of their ancestors and being in field trip to the local place of worship contact with other Plast members around called Oriana, where adherents practice a the world. Ukrainian native national faith called Verkhovynky have built sets for and “RUNVira.” An afternoon game about organized the annual masquerade play the sisterhood’s patron, composer (“Kostiumivka”) for Plast youths in New Mykola Lysenko, followed, and later two York for two years, and plan to continue candidates taught the group Ukrainian the tradition this spring. Members live in songs that none of them had sung before. the United States, Canada and Ukraine. The main meeting elicited a flurry of Verkhovynky are very active in their discussion and ideas, and a new execu- local Plast chapters during the year, and tive board was chosen. The session ended both the young adult and senior branches with the Verkhovynky joining the rest of meet regularly. Soyuzivka’s costumed guests at the annu- For much more information, photos al Halloween dance. and membership requirements, readers The Verkhovynky sorority has New may visit the website www.plastscout- York roots beginning in 1950 and ing.org/verkhovynky.

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NEW YORK – “Still the River Flows: A ancestors, and nature. The songs are incan- pieces with Ukrainian material, including tion “Still the River Flows” will be Glimpse into Winter Solstice and Christmas tations that assume the magical power of “Explosions” (based on poetry and docu- accompanied by a series of educational Rituals in a Carpathian Village” is a “frozen words: what is said will be so. mentation about Chornobyl), “Blind Sight” programs and events, the aim of which is performance” that echoes the theme of The The Christmas Eve ritual includes a (inspired by the work and travels to Japan to broaden the public’s perception and Ukrainian Museum’s exhibition “The Tree dinner of 12 dishes and a number of of blind poet Vasyl Yeroshenko), “Yara’s heighten its appreciation of Ukrainian folk of Life, the Sun, the Goddess: Symbolic other customs. Last winter, Yara’s new Forest Song” (based on Lesia Ukrainka’s art, its customs, rituals, and traditions. The Motifs in Ukrainian Folk Art.” theater piece at La MaMa, “Koliada: verse play), “Waterfall/Reflections” (with following programs are planned: Conceived by Virlana Tkacz and Twelve Dishes,” was based on this ritual Nina Matvienko), “Song Tree and Kupalo” On December 17, at 7:30 p.m., a con- Watoku Ueno of the Yara Arts Group, the and included traditional singers from the (with Mariana Sadovska), and “Swan” cert titled “From Epic Christmas Songs installation creates a glimpse into the village of Kryvorivnia. In January 2003, (based on Oleh Lysheha’s poetry). (Koliady) to Modern Mosaics” by Koliada – traditional winter solstice and Ms. Tkacz was accompanied to the Since 1996, Yara has also worked on Bandura Downtown, with Julian Kytasty, Christmas rituals in a village in the Carpathians by Mr. Khantaev. The photo- theater pieces with Buryat artists from Mike Andrets, Natalia Honcharenko and Hutsul region of the Carpathian graphs he took were on exhibit last Siberia. In addition, Yara presents art, Ruslana and Boyan Makarenko, will take Mountains of Ukraine. The installation January at La MaMa Galleria and are stages music and poetry events, and con- place at the museum. opened to the public on December 11, part of this exhibition as well. Also ducts master classes and workshops. For information readers may contact: and will be on view through January 29, included are videos of winter rituals in During this Christmas season, the The Ukrainian Museum, 222 E. Sixth St., 2006. A vocal workshop and a concert Kryvorivnia created by Ms. Odezynska. museum’s exhibition “The Tree of Life, New York, NY 10003; phone, (212) 228- will accompany the project. The Yara Arts Group, a resident com- the Sun, the Goddess: Symbolic Motifs in 0110; e-mail, [email protected]; Ms. Tkacz, director, Mr. Ueno, set pany of La MaMa Experimental Theater, Ukrainian Folk Art” and Yara’s installa- website, www.ukrainianmuseum.org. designer, filmmaker Andrea Odezynska, creates original theater pieces, art photographer Alexander Khantaev and exhibits, and music and poetry events poet-translator Wanda Phipps have creat- rooted in the cultures of the East. The 2005, the United States Senate passed by ed a collaborative work presenting ele- group’s founders are Ms. Tkacz, Mr. ACTION ITEM unanimous consent S. 632 to repeal the ments of the Koliada, an ancient winter Ueno and Ms. Phipps, who have been (Continued from page 7) Jackson-Vanik Amendment for Ukraine. solstice ritual, rich in symbolism, that has working for years with Ms. Odezynska SAMPLE LETTER In the last few months the world has become part of the Christmas tradition. and Mr. Khantaev. seen Ukraine make a firm commitment to For the past three years, Yara artists Recently, Ms. Tkacz received an NEA The Honorable (Name) a democratic future and integration into have been documenting the Koliada as it Poetry Translation Fellowship to translate U.S. House of Representatives the Euro-Atlantic community. It is exists in the village of Kryvorivnia in the the poetry of Serhiy Zhadan, and Mr. Ueno Washington, D.C. 20515 essential that the U.S. Congress support Carpathian Mountains of southwestern received an NEA/TCG Design Fellowship. the goodwill of the Ukrainian people and Ukraine, learning about the traditional ritu- Ms. Odezynska has completed a new film, Dear Representative (Name): enhance bilateral relations. Repealing als and listening to stories told by villagers. “The Whisperer,” and has several films to the Jackson-Vanik Amendment, as was The Koliada is considered to be the most her credit. Since its founding in 1990, the accomplished in the Senate, is a critical As a Ukrainian American residing in important event of the year in the area, Yara Arts Group has collaborated on 16 step that will demonstrate to the your district, I urge you to support H.R. since people believe that spring and the original theater productions with artists Ukrainian government that the United 1053, a bill introduced by Rep. Jim harvest will not come to the village unless from Ukraine, Siberia and China. States welcomes the changes implement- Gerlach to graduate Ukraine from the these songs are sung in every household. A Yara’s first show, “In the Light,” was ed and believes in the future of Ukraine. I Jackson-Vanik Amendment of the 1974 separate song (koliada) – chosen specifical- about Les Kurbas; it was performed in Kyiv urge you to support H.R. 1053 and thus ly for each person by the leader of the during the week that Ukraine declared its Trade Act. This amendment is a relic of facilitate the democratic and economic singers – is sung to every member of the independence in 1991. The workshop for Cold War-era politics. Each administra- development of Ukraine. household, both living and recently “Koliada,” Yara’s most recent show, took tion since 1992 has certified that Ukraine deceased. The words are of ancient origin place in Kyiv last winter during the Orange has met all requirements stipulated in the Sincerely, and exhibit traces of worship of the sun, Revolution. Yara has created nine theater law. Furthermore, on November 18, (your name) 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2005 No. 50

depth conversation with a leading spe- visitors from Ukraine returned to various inspired by information gained from Iowa State... cialist in their field. departments and had more meetings. At interaction with professors and fellow (Continued from page 9) Many of the faculty had visited the end of their day at ISU they walked Ukrainians. Among the myriad impres- responded with great interest and were Ukraine a number of times for various around the beautiful campus and toured sions of their U.S. trip will be the warmth able to fit meetings into their busy sched- projects in recent years. They compared Reiman Gardens, the university’s treasure. and openness of the Iowa State commu- U.S. and Ukrainian experience, and ules. Organizers contacted Ukrainian The visitors from Cherkasy left Ames nity. Club members to assist with interpreta- achievements. These conversations are tion and hosting of the delegation. expected to continue via e-mail contacts On the day of the visit, the delegation and during visits in Ukraine or in the arrived to the president’s conference U.S. Shevchenko Society announces winners room. President Gregory Geoffroy The College of Agriculture hosted the stepped from his office to personally visitors at lunch during which David greet the visitors and welcome them to Acker, an associate dean of the college, of Orange Revolution essay contest ISU. After a brief introduction, the visi- presented an overview of agriculture in tors met their hosts and went to their Iowa and the history of ISU. He respond- NEW YORK – In the spring of 2005, respective departments. Each had an in- ed to numerous questions. After lunch, the the Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh) announced a competition open to all undergraduates at U.S. and European colleges and universities for essays that honor the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. The essays had to be at least 1,500 and no more than 4,000 words long. The submitted manuscripts were eval- uated by a jury composed of Profs. Taras Hunczak, Alexander Motyl and Martha B. Trofimenko – all members of the NTSh Governing Board. First place and a prize of $500 were won by Nicole Shantz of the John Cabot University in Rome, Italy, for her essay titled “The Orange Revolution and Democratic Change in Ukraine.” Second place was won by Andrew Rago of the Catholic University of America for his essay “Ukraine 2004 Elections Hold Key to Economic Growth.” The essay was awarded $400 Nicole Shantz, the winner of the NTSh each. essay competition on the Orange There was a threeway tie for third Revolution. place among Drew Bliss (Purdue University), Matthew J. Kramer (Purdue By way of exception, a special honor- University) and Roxolana Wynar able mention prize of $150 was awarded (University of Denver). They received to Pavlo Levkiv, a 10th grader from the $300 each. Newark Academy in New Jersey. No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2005 25

Speaking at University of Pittsburgh, ,QFRQMXQFWLRQZLWKWKHH[KLELWLRQ 7KH7UHHRI/LIHWKH6XQWKH*RGGHVV  Motyl expresses optimism about Ukraine 6\PEROLF0RWLIVLQ8NUDLQLDQ)RON$U W 7KH8NUDLQLDQ0XVHXPSUHVHQWV by Ryan Melnyk tion of institutions, not by “democrats waving flags” and “capitalists waving PITTSBURGH – Alexander J. Motyl, $QDUWLQVWDOODWLRQE\< DUD$UWV*URXS dollars.” He refered to the correct func- professor of political science at Rutgers tioning of institutions such as the 67,//7+(5,9(5)/2: 6 University, delivered a lecture on Verkhovna Rada and the Supreme Court $*OLPSVHLQWR: LQWHU6ROVWLFHDQG&KULVWPDV5LWXDOVLQD&DUSDWKLDQ9 LOODJH November 2 at the University of Pittsburgh to an audience of some 30 stu- during the Orange Revolution as proof of the development of a true democracy. 'HFHPEHU±-DQXDU\ dents, faculty, local Ukrainian community 2SHQLQJ±6XQGD\ members and other interested individuals. President Yushchenko’s much-bally- 'HFHPEHUSP Dr. Motyl’s topic was “One Year After hooed deal with Mr. Yanukovych could ZLWKDVFHQHIURP< DUD¶V also denote an “Orangification” of Mr. Ukraine’s Orange Revolution: A Balance ³.ROLDGD7 ZHOYH'LVKHV´ Yanukovych, not necessarily a betrayal of Sheet.” DQGVRQJVSHUIRUPHGE\ Orange ideals by Mr. Yushchenko, Prof. The recent events concerning the 0DULDQD6DGRYVND removal of Prime Minister Yulia Motyl said. Because of the two-way nature Tymoshenko and the brokering of a politi- of deals, it could indicate Mr. Yanukovych’s acceptance of Mr. Yushchenko’s legitimiza- cal deal between President Viktor &RQFHUW±6DWXUGD\ tion. In addition, Prof. Motyl also predicted Yushchenko and his former adversary 'HFHPEHUSP  a further democratization and capitalization Viktor Yanukovych have led many to ³.ROLDGD)URP0HGLHYDO believe the spirit of the Orange of Ukraine, but he acknowledged that this Revolution is flickering. The future of this hinges on many variables, including the (SLFVWR0RGHUQ 0RVDLFV ´ administration and Ukraine’s political sys- Russian Federation. E\%DQGXUD'RZQWRZQ tem itself seem shady to some observers. The lecture was organized by the However, Prof. Motyl, a specialist on Ukrainian Students Organization at the Ukrainian politics, said he feels these University of Pittsburgh and the univer- 7KH8NUDLQLDQ0XVHXP fears are ungrounded. He cited the perma- sity’s department of Slavic languages (DVWWK6WUHHW1HZ< RUN1<   nence of institutions as a key stabilizing and literatures. ZZZXNUDLQLDQPXVHXPRUJ‡ZZZEUDPDFRP\DUD factor and said he considers the current issues mere individual political issues, non-essential to the country’s structure. Correction Prof. Motyl acknowledged the evolu- In the story by Bohdan Porytko head- tionary change of Ukrainian government lined “Morris County Volleyball Club An open invitation to local community activists and downplayed the actual role of the hosts first annual tournament” Would you like fellow Ukrainians to know about events in your community? Orange Revolution. He said that the (December 4), the caption accompanying Would you like to become one of The Ukrainian Weekly’s correspondents? Orange Revolution demonstrated a tangi- the photo of the trophy presentation to Then what are you waiting for? ble sense of a civil society and popular the MCVC team did not identify the opinion in Ukraine, and noted that he credit union representative presenting the The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes submissions from local community activists. regards the event as a barometer in the trophy and misidentified the sponsoring You may reach The Weekly by phone, (973) 292-9800; fax, (973) 644-9510; increasing democratization of Ukraine. credit union. The trophy was presented e-mail, [email protected]; or mail, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, According to Prof. Motyl, democra- by Orest Ciapka of the Selfreliance Parsippany, NJ 07054. cies and markets are created incremental- Ukrainian American Federal Credit ly by the establishment and legitimiza- Union. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2005 No. 50 UKEUKELLODEONODEON FOR THE NEXT GENERATION

Children of all ages enjoy Halloween at Soyuzivka by Bohdanka Puzyk appear and make their way to the Veselka Hall. There the sounds of KERHONKSON, N.Y. – Hrim (the band – not thunder, Halloween weekend has become one which is what “hrim” means in of the most popular family events at Ukrainian) could be heard. Soyuzivka, the estate owned by the Inside the hall, enjoying them- Ukrainian National Association here selves were various television char- in upstate New York. acters, mermaids, witches, vam- As in the past few years pires, milkmaids, Kleenex boxes, Soyuzivka’s resident ghost (oh yes, tigers, cats, clowns, Victorian there is one), Ursula, lent a helping ladies other and characters. Prizes hand in decorating the resort. She were awarded to the most creative took over Lviv, where many a sum- participants in costume, and this mer camper has stayed, and year winners were: best group cos- redesigned the building to welcome tume – the Teniuch family as the all and any who are brave of heart. Addams Family; best female cos- The entrance to Main House was tume, Nina Kobryn as a box of tis- eerily lit so that all of the guests sues; most original costume, registering would known that the Chrystia Kukuruza as road kill; spirits (“dukhy” in Ukrainian) best home-made costume, Lesia were about. Guests could see Kozicky as Aunt Jemima; and best Ursula’s hand also at various loca- male costume, Yurko Kobryn as a tions around the estate. homeless Ukrainian. (Soyuzivka Though Saturday, October 29, General Manager Nestor Paslawsky Two youngsters get ready to paint pumpkins. was a cold day, that did not deter kept trying to throw the interloper anyone from participating in pump- out – until he recognized who it ing all of the guests enjoyed a deli- celebration of Halloween can be kin painting and all the other activ- was.) cious breakfast and spent a leisure- seen on Soyuzivka’s website, ities coordinated by the staff of The zabava lasted well past the ly morning discussing the events www.soyuzivka.com. Perhaps young Soyuzivka. Children from the ages witching hour, with everyone hav- and costumes of the previous night. readers of this page will be among of 2 1/2 to 59 painted over 25 ing a fantastic time. The next morn- Pictures of this year’s weekend our guests in costume next year! pumpkins. The pumpkins that were not taken home were later used as table centerpieces at that evening’s dance (or “zabava”). There were also crafts for the children and scary movies. Promptly at 4 p.m. a lion appeared to organize the children for the Halloween Parade. As the parade participants lined up, one could see princesses, superheroes, rabbits, butterflies, aliens, cats, cowboys, witches, tigers, ladybugs and many, many more characters. The parade wound its way around Soyuzivka’s fountain and over to the Veselka patio, where all of the characters got on stage. The par- ents then had their photo op, and each costumed participant received a goody bag. As the witching hour neared, the hayrides to the Haunted House began. Ursula, with her devilish band of tricky helpers, waited to greet all who came. The squeals and shrieks could be heard all the way from the Lviv villa to the Main House. Later that night after dinner, Soyuzivka took on an entirely dif- ferent appearance. As the evening grew longer and the night got dark- er, strange characters started to Children and their parents line up in front of Soyuzivka’s Main House for the start of the Halloween Parade. No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2005 27

Among these TWELVE DISHES are: BORSCH, fish, VARENYKY, Mishanyna HOLUBTSI, UZVAR and KUTIA. The dishes themselves and the order in To solve this month’s Mishanyna, find the words capitalized in the follow- which they are eaten on Christmas Eve varies from region to region. ing text hidden within the Mishanyna grid. The deceased of the FAMILY are represented by a sheaf of wheat known as the DIDUKH, which occupies a special place of honor in the home – For Ukrainians, Christmas, or RIZDVO, is marked by special traditions. usually under the family’s ICONS. In addition, a setting is placed on the The most interesting part of the celebrations is SVIAT VECHIR, as Christmas table for those who have passed away, symbolically allowing them to be Eve is known, when the entire family sits down to a dinner, known as Sviata part of this special gathering. Vecheria, or HOLY SUPPER, of 12 MEATLESS and milkless dishes. Ukrainians sing KOLIADY, or carols, for the Christmas holidays and often this is accompanied by a VERTEP, a type of puppet theater or play put on by groups of carolers. The carolers also express best wishes and Connecticut youths celebrate Harvest Day blessings for Christmas and the New Year in the form of verses known as BETHANY, Conn. – The youths of Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic VINSHUVANNIA. (See the story on page 11 for information on a book Church of Ansonia, Conn., and Three Saints Orthodox Church in Bethany, compiled by a Ukrainian Canadian teenager that contains such verses.) Conn., performed recently at the parishes’ fifth traditional “Harvest Day.” Seen below (from left) are some of the members of the Ukrainian American U S V A S A P A R P U B B O S Folk Dancing and Singing Group: Michael Antos, Myroslaw Klapyk, Taras Rybachuk, Darya Dabychyna, Sara German and Mary Gulash. The group, R I Z D V O A R E N T M O U L directed by Frank F. Stuban, presented a “Harvest Parade,” welcomed the C F A M I L Y T I R A E R L A audience with the traditional Ukrainian greetings of bread and salt, and per- formed several dance numbers. The August 21 event was attended by nearly H S B L A A R T S Y V A S S V 250 people. R E A O T E A S T A V T C V A I H V W V A N I B Z U L H O G S S L E E O A R U C R E E B V T I I R C O L O L O S S S A L M D A I H O W Y O R T S R I A A E T D I D U K H T A E R T D T V E A R I Z D V O N E W U H U L S O N G R A E Y O U R K E B E Y D A I L O K R O M A D A A W O R H O L Y S U P P E R R S T V I N S H U V A N N I A T 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2005 No. 50

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Sunday, December 11 place at the society’s building, 63 Fourth Soyuzivka’s Datebook Ave. (between Ninth and 10th streets) at 5 NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Museum p.m. For additional information call (212) December 23, 2005 January 27-29, 2006 invites the public to an opening of an art 254-5130. Jeremiah Flaherty Law Office Church of Annunciation Family installation by Yara Arts Group titled “Still Christmas Party Weekend, Flushing, N.Y. the River Flows: A Glimpse into Winter NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Museum Solstice and Christmas Rituals in a invites the public to a concert titled December 24, 2005 January 28, 2006 Carpathian Village.” The opening pro- “Koliada – Christmas Carols: From Traditional Ukrainian Christmas Eve 2006 Ukrainian Engineers’ Malanka gram, beginning at 2 p.m., will include a Medieval Epics to Modern Mosaics” by Supper, 6 p.m., $25 per person, scene from Yara’s “Koliada: Twelve Bandura Downtown with Julian Kytasty, overnight packages available February 10-12, 2006 Dishes” and songs by Mariana Sadovska. Mike Andrec, Natalia Honcharenko, Valentine’s Day Weekend The installation, which will be on view Ruslana and Boyan Makarenko. The con- through January, is presented in conjunc- cert will begin at 7:30 p.m. For further December 24-27, 2005 tion with the current exhibition – “The February 17-20, 2006 information call the museum, (212) 228- Skoczylas Christmas Family Reunion Tree of Life, the Sun, the Goddess: 0110. Family Winter Weekend Symbolic Motifs in Ukrainian Folk Art.” December 31-January 1, 2006 For further information call the museum, NEW YORK: Sviatyi Mykolai (St. New Year’s Eve Extravaganza Package February 25, 2006 (212) 228-0110. Nicholas) will be visiting with children at Wedding Thursday, December 15 Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization, January 1, 2006 New York City branch, 144 Second Ave., New Year’s Day Brunch, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., March 3-5, 2006 NEW YORK: Please join us for the first at 2:15 p.m. The Heavenly Office will be $14 per person Plast Kurin “Khmelnychenky” event of the “Race for the Rada” discus- open in Room 9 at 10 a.m. For additional Annual Winter Rada sion series at 7:30 p.m. at the Ukrainian information call (212) 982-4530. All chil- January 6, 2006 Congress Committee of America National dren are welcome. Office, 203 Second Ave., second floor. Traditional Ukrainian Christmas Eve The topic: “The influence of musicians, BETHESDA, Md.: The Taras Supper, 6 p.m., $25 per person, celebrities and music on the Orange overnight packages available Shevchenko School of Ukrainian Studies Revolution and leading up to the of Washington, invites the community to Parliamentary elections in Ukraine.” The celebrate “Sviaty Mykolai: Virsh, Pisnia, event is hosted by the Brooklyn Ukrainian Ikona” (St. Nicholas: Poem, Song, Icon) to Group, in cooperation with the Ukrainian be held at Westland Middle School, 5511 Congress Committee of America, Massachusetts Ave. The “Nebesna Shevchenko Scientific Society and Kantselaria ” (Heavenly Office) opens at 9 Columbia University Ukrainian Studies a.m. A Christmas bazaar, which will open Program. For information call the UCCA, To book a room or event call: (845) 626-5641, ext. 140 at 9:30 a.m., will offer a selection of baked (212) 228-6840. 216 Foordmore Road P.O. 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ADVANCE NOTICE Food will be served all day, and takeouts will be available. A selection of home- Saturday, December 31 baked pastries will also be on sale. Also, there will booths with Christmas gift items NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Institute of on sale for purchase for one’s friends, rela- America (UIA) and the Ukrainian tives, children and grandchildren. The $1 Professionals at the Institute present “New raffle table will be filled with many won- Year’s Eve at the Institute,” to be held at derful donated items, including Christmas the Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 E. ornaments and household items. For more 79th St., at 9 p.m.-3 a.m. Welcome 2006 at information call one of the co-chairs: this elegant evening, with dancing to the Lidia Bilous, (941) 918-9594, or Slava music of Luna, and a silent auction bene- Maluk, (941) 947-3548; or, on the day of fiting the Ukrainian Children’s Aid and the bazaar, St. Mary Parish Hall, (941) Relief Effort and the UIA. Tickets include 423-2427. a buffet, open bar and midnight cham- pagne toast. Dress is black tie. Capacity is Saturday, December 17 limited, and guests are encouraged to buy NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific their tickets early. Ticket prices are: mem- Society invites the public to a Literary bers, $125; non-members, $150; students, Bazaar featuring poetry readings by $100. After December 7, ticket prices Bohdan Rubchak, Oleksander Irvanets and increase $25. For tickets and information Vasyl Makhno. The program will take call the UIA, (212) 288-8660.

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